Devastate \Dev"as*tate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Devastated; p. pr. & vb. n. Devastating.] [L. devastatus,
p. p. of devastare to devastate; de + vastare to lay waste,
vastus waste. See Vast.]
To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
[1913 Webster]
Whole countries . . . were devastated. --Macaulay.
Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder;
pillage.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
devastate
v 1: devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside
after the invasion" [syn: lay waste to, waste, desolate,
ravage, scourge]
2: overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when
his son died"
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "devastate":
abash, bring to ruin, chagrin, condemn, confound, consume, damn,
deal destruction, decimate, demolish, depopulate, depredate,
desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devour, discombobulate,
discomfit, disconcert, dispeople, dissolve, embarrass, engorge,
flatten, floor, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, havoc,
humiliate, incinerate, lay in ruins, lay waste, level, mortify,
nonplus, obliterate, overwhelm, pillage, ravage, raze, ruin,
ruinate, sack, shatter, shipwreck, shock, spoil, spoliate,
swallow up, take aback, throw into disorder, unleash destruction,
unleash the hurricane, unpeople, upheave, vandalize, vaporize,
waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste
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