Dev·as·tate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devastated; p. pr. & vb. n. Devastating.] To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Whole countries . . . were devastated. --Macaulay.
Syn: -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
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devastated
adj : made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
"a wasted landscape" [syn: blasted, desolate, desolated,
ravaged, ruined, wasted]