Word.ws English Dictionary

devasted

devasted is the simple past and past participle of devast.

Meaning of devast

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To devastate.
    • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
      The countries devasted, the cities laid in ruins , and none of the colleges of the learned to be found

Questions about devasted

What is devasted the simple past and past participle of?
Devasted is the simple past and past participle of devast.

Words near devasted in the dictionary

  1. devastative
  2. devastator
  3. devastators
  4. devastavit
  5. devastavits
  6. devasted
  7. devasting
  8. devasts
  9. devata
  10. devatas
  11. Devauden

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: devasted (page history and authors); devast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “devasted.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/devasted. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.