"Devast" is a word in ENGLISH

The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.

The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often …

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.

wasteful use of the property of a deceased person, as for extravagant funeral or other unnecessary expenses. 2 Bl. Comm. …

One who, or that which, devastates.

Devastated; laid waste.

The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and …

A species of aggra-vated waste, by stripping or devastating the land, to the injury of the reversioner, and especlally pending …

Devastation; waste.

To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.

Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.

Swarming and devastating like locusts.

Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.

v. /MANG-:-EN/ to devastate, ravage, destroy, ruin.