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devastator|ˈdɛvəsteɪtə(r)|
[a. late L. dēvastātor (Cassiodorus), agent-n. from dēvastāre to devastate.]
He who or that which devastates; a waster, ravager.
1818E. Blaquiere tr. Pananti's Algiers vi. 136 All is to no purpose with these devastators. 1829Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) II. 6/1 This devastator of wines and olives. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 437 He marched against the devastators of the Palatinate. |