devast

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English

Etymology

Compare French dévaster. See devastate.

Verb

devast (third-person singular simple present devasts, present participle devasting, simple past and past participle devasted)

(obsolete) To devastate.
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
  The countries devasted, the cities laid in ruins , and none of the colleges of the learned to be found

References

“devast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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