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