verb
To lay waste
ravage, desolate, waste; see destroy 1, ravage.
To make helpless
overwhelm, confound, crush; see confuse, confute, defeat 1. See syn. study at ravage.
See devastate in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To destroy completely as or as if by conquering:
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