† degastn.
Obsolete.
Devastation, ruin, waste.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation
harryingc900
harrowingc1000
wastinga1300
destructionc1330
harryc1330
wastenessa1382
wastitya1382
desolation1382
unroningnessa1400
wrackc1407
exile1436
havoc1480
hership1487
vastation1545
vastitude1545
sackc1550
population1552
waste1560
ravishment1570
riotingc1580
pull-down1588
desolating1591
degast1592
devastation1603
ravage1611
wracking1611
ravagement1766
herriment1787
carnage1848
wastage1909
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1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 116 Ech thing almost we turne vnto degaste.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures liv. 214 He lost in all these degasts eight Thousand of his men.
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n.1592- to lose breath
- to lose by a head
- to lose by a neck
- to lose caste
- to lose codille
- to lose company
- to lose count
- to lose countenance
- to lose earth
- to lose face
- to lose ground
- to lose heart
- to lose hold, one's balance
- to lose it
- to lose it that
- to lose leather
- to lose no time
- to lose nothing in the telling
- to lose oil
- to lose one's bearings
- to lose one's bottle
- to lose one's breath
- to lose one's cherry
- to lose one's cool
- to lose one's eyes