意味(日本語)

(国土などを)荒らす、荒廃させる ◇L.de(＝強意)＋L.vastare(＝荒らす)

語源

• vast- : L.vastare = to make desolate(荒らす), to make empty（からにする）

意味(英語)

• (verb-transitive) To lay waste; destroy.
• (verb-transitive) To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark.

例文

• Bubonic plague, a disease which at intervals has swept over the whole world, familiar to all who recall their history as the terrible Black Death of Europe and the plague described by Pepys and Defoe, will never again devastate the more civilized portions of the earth.

破壊的な、恐ろしい

語源

• vast- : L.vastare = to make desolate(荒らす), to make empty（からにする）

荒廃、(精神的な)破滅

語源

• vast- : L.vastare = to make desolate(荒らす), to make empty（からにする）