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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[Cf. F.

dévaster

. See

To devastate.

[Obs.]

Bolingbroke.

Verb.

[L.] To lay waste; to plunder. [Not in use.]

devast ‎(third-person singular simple present devasts, present participle devasting, simple past and past participle devasted)

(obsolete) To devastate.
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