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means Widespread, often overwhelming destruction or ruin left behind by a disaster, attack, or loss.

from From Latin devastare, 'to lay waste entirely' — the prefix de- (thoroughly, down) piled onto vastare, 'to lay waste,' itself rooted in vastus, meaning empty, desolate, immense. That same vastus also gave English 'vast,' so devastation and vastness are etymological siblings: one describes a terrible emptiness, the other the act of carving that emptiness out of something that was once whole.