DEVASTATE Copy link • DEVASTATEvastare: devastare: pervastare: populari. depopulari: perpopulari (vastare, to lay waste from rage or policy; to destroy the property of an enemy: πέρθειν: populari, to plunder on a great scale for one’s own use; carrying off the crops and driving off the herds: devastare seldom, not pre-Augustan): ferro ignique or igni ferroque vastare; ferro flammisque pervastare. Vid: LAY WASTE.