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1. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
   "The enemy devastate the countryside after the invasion"
   - lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge, lay waste
    
2. Overwhelm or overpower
   "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"

Derived forms: devastates, devastated, devastating

See also: devastation

Type of: destroy, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, ruin, spifflicate, spiflicate, sweep over, whelm [archaic]