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Devastator   Listen
noun
Devastator  n.  One who, or that which, devastates.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Devastator" Quotes from Famous Books



... change had come over the spirit of the landed gentry since the time when George Stephenson had first projected a railway through that district! Then they were up in arms against him, characterising him as the devastator and spoiler of their estates; now he was hailed as one of the greatest benefactors of the age. Sir Robert Peel, the chief political personage in England, welcomed him as a guest and friend, and spoke of him as the chief among practical philosophers. ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles



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