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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
devastated \devastated\ adjective same as {desolated}.
Syn: blasted, desolate, desolated, ravaged, ruined, wasted. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Devastate \Dev"as*tate\ (?; 277), verb (used with an object) [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.
Whole countries . . . were devastated. --Macaulay.
Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
devastated
adjective: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" [syn: {blasted}, {desolate}, {desolated}, {ravaged}, {ruined}, {wasted}]
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