dévaster
French, verb/de.vas.te/
dévaster is spelled D-É-V-A-S-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,878th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévaster is a French verb meaning “to devastate, to destroy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ruiner ; ravager ; piller ; détruire ; faire périr”.
What does dévaster mean in English?
verb
- 1
to devastate, to destroy
- 2
to be devastated, to be destroy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ruiner ; ravager ; piller ; détruire ; faire périr. 2. Détruire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dévaster
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dévastant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dévasté participle past
- dévaste first-person indicative present
- dévastes indicative present second-person
- dévastons first-person indicative plural
- dévastez indicative plural present
- dévastent indicative plural present
- dévastais first-person imperfect indicative
- dévastait imperfect indicative singular
- dévastions first-person imperfect indicative
- dévastiez imperfect indicative plural
- dévastaient imperfect indicative plural
- dévastai first-person historic indicative
- dévastas historic indicative past
- dévasta historic indicative past
- dévastâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dévaster?
- /de.vas.te/
- \de.vas.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dévaster
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dévaster in French?
dévaster appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).