devastate overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
clutch,
get hold of,
seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
benight make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
knock out destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out"
stagger to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
lock become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
overtake -
travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
