"Devastavit" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Lat He has wasted. The act of an executor or administrator in wasting the goods of the deceased; misman-agement of the estate by which a loss occurs ; a breach of trust or misappropriation of assets held in a fiduciary character; any violation or neglect of duty by an executor or administrator, involving loss to the de-cedent’s estate, which makes him ‘ personally responsible to helrs, creditors, or legatees. Clift v. white, 12 N. Y. 531; Beardsley v. Marsteller, 120 Ind. 319, 22 N. E. 315; Steel v. Holladay, 20 or. 70, 25 Pac. 69, 10 L. R. A. 670; Dawes v. Boylston, 9 Mass. 353, 6 Am. Dec. 72; McGlaughlin v. McGlaughlin, 43 W. Va. 226, 27 S. E. 378
Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased
person by an executor or an administrator.
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
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