Warlike incursion; devastation, laying waste; ravaging, plundering, raiding.

spoiling (of hell), also in general sense, plundering, sacking (of a country).

The action of laying waste; devastation.

The action of ravaging or laying waste; havoc, ruin. Obsolete (as distinct from the main sense.)

The act of harrying; devastation, molestation, vexation.

The state of being waste. Desolation, destruction, ruin. literal and figurative. (Chiefly biblical.) Obsolete.

Desolation. (Only in Wyclif's rendering of vastitas in the Vulgate.)

The action of laying waste a land, etc., destroying its people, crops, and buildings, and making it unfit for habitation; utter devastation; an act…

desolation.

Damage, disaster, or injury to a person, state, etc., by reason of force, outrage, or violence; devastation, destruction.

Waste or devastation of property; ruin, utter impoverishment. Obsolete (in later use historical).

Devastation, destruction; esp. in to make havoc, to play havoc (frequently const. with), in which the earlier sense of spoliation or plunder has…

Harrying, pillage, plundering, devastation; a warlike incursion, or foray; harrying of cattle.

The action of laying waste, devastating, or destroying. Also frequently, an instance of this. Obsolete (very common 1610–60).

Devastation; laying waste. Obsolete. rare.

The action of sack, v.2; sackage, plundering; esp. in to put to sack, †to put toor unto the sack (obsolete).

The action of laying waste to a country or region; devastation.

Destruction or devastation caused by war, floods, conflagrations, etc. Now rare or Obsolete.

An act of plundering or robbing. Obsolete.

Scottish. The action of ravaging or spoiling the land. Obsolete. rare.

An act or the action of pulling (something) down; the fact of being pulled down. Also figurative.

The action of desolate, v.

Devastation, ruin, waste.

The action of devastating, or condition of being devastated; laying waste; wide-spread destruction; ravages.

The action or practice of ravaging; the result of this action; destruction, devastation, or extensive damage caused by a person or animal.

Ravaging, depredation; devastation, extensive damage; an instance of this.

Harrying, ravaging, devastation.

figurative. Widespread damage or ruin, devastation; chaos, disorder.

The action of laying (land) waste.

devastation.