devast

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.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for devast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

staved

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