Devastated

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Devastate \Dev"as*tate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Devastated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Devastating}.] [L. devastatus,
     p. p. of devastare to devastate; de + vastare to lay waste,
     vastus waste. See {Vast}.]
     To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Whole countries . . . were devastated.   --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder;
          pillage.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  devastated \devastated\ adj.
     same as {desolated}.
  
     Syn: blasted, desolate, desolated, ravaged, ruined, wasted.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  devastated
       adj : made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
             "a wasted landscape" [syn: {blasted}, {desolate}, {desolated},
              {ravaged}, {ruined}, {wasted}]