9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
verb cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
verb overwhelm or overpower
originBorrowed from Latin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō (“to lay waste, devastate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)); from dē- (augmentative prefix) + vastō (“to destroy, lay waste”). See vast. First attested in 1638.
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