dévaster

Dans beaucoup de pays, le sida avait dévasté une génération entière, laissant derrière lui d’innombrables orphelins et des communautés anéanties.
In many countries, AIDS devastated an entire generation, leaving countless orphans and shattered communities.
En tant qu'enfant, je ne comprenais pas comment cet endroit avait pu survivre à toute la destruction qui avait dévasté l'Europe et le monde, comment nos quatre assiettes étaient restées intactes.
And as a child, I could not believe how this place could have survived all the destruction which happened in Europe and in the world, but the four plates were not touched.
Il avait tout perdu dans le tsunami qui avait dévasté son pays mais il a pu récupérer ce ballon de football qui avait traversé tout le Pacifique.
He had lost everything in the tsunami that devastated his country, but he was able to retrieve that soccer ball after it had floated all the way across the Pacific.
Par exemple, l'économie hondurienne s'est ralentie au lendemain du passage de l'ouragan Mitch, qui avait dévasté le pays à la fin de 1998. Le taux de croissance a également diminué en Jamaïque.
The Honduran economy, for example, contracted in the wake of hurricane Mitch, which had devastated the country at the end of 1998, and the growth rate in Jamaica fell as well.
Ce rapport a été suivi d'un exposé faisant le point de l'action de l'UNICEF à la suite du tremblement de terre qui avait dévasté la province chinoise du Sichuan.
UNICEF was also participating in a needs assessment with the Government and other partners.
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