Hypertext Webster Gateway: "devastated"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

Whole countries . . . were devastated. --Macaulay.

Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder;
pillage.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

devastated
adj : made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
"a wasted landscape" [syn: {blasted}, {desolate}, {desolated},
{ravaged}, {ruined}, {wasted}]

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