English-Portuguese translations for devastate

• devastar
  Mas a Comissão, depois de devastar as águas da Mauritânia, quer agora fazer deitar por terra o seu acordo. But, having devastated Mauritanian waters, the Commission now wants to dump its deal.
  A Espanha foi a primeira grande batalha da Segunda Guerra Mundial, banco de ensaio de uma guerra futura que viria a devastar a Europa. Spain was the first great battle of the Second World War, the test bench for a war to come that would devastate Europe.
  Se não tomarmos estas medidas, um “tsunami” chinês devastará a indústria na Europa. If we do not undertake such measures, a Chinese ‘tsunami’ will devastate industry in Europe.

Definition of devastate

• To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest
• To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains and starting over

Related words

• devastating
• devastation
• devastated
• devastatingly
• devastator
• reciprocal devastation