devast
English
editEtymology
editCompare French dévaster. See devastate.
Verb
editdevast (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
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
References
edit- “devast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.