devastar
Portuguese, verb/de.vasˈta(ʁ)/
devastar is spelled D-E-V-A-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 47,254th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Devastar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to devastate; to lay waste (to completely destroy)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arruinar, assolar”.
What does devastar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to devastate; to lay waste (to completely destroy)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. arruinar, assolar 2. destruir 3. danificar 4. despovoar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of devastar
- devasto first-person present singular
- devastei first-person preterite singular
- devastado participle past
- devastares infinitive second-person singular
- devastarmos first-person infinitive plural
- devastardes infinitive plural second-person
- devastarem infinitive plural third-person
- devastando gerund
- devastados masculine participle past
- devastada feminine participle past
- devastadas feminine participle past
- devastas indicative present second-person
- devasta indicative present singular
- devastamos first-person indicative plural
- devastais indicative plural present
- devastam indicative plural present
- devastava first-person imperfect indicative
- devastavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce devastar?
- Brazil /de.vasˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.vasˈta(h)]
- /de.vasˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to devastar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is devastar in Portuguese?
devastar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).