devastate
I
verb
demolish, depopulate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, gut, lever, overwhelm, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, raze, ruin, sack, wreck
II
index
damage, despoil, destroy (efface), extinguish, extirpate, harm, obliterate, pillage, prejudice (injure), subvert
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006