dévaster

Les bâtiments furent mis à bas, les pierres s’effondrant sur leurs habitants, et les flammes dévastaient tout.
The buildings were broken down, the stones raining on their inhabitants, and the flames devastated all.
Des troupes de mercenaires violents et pilleurs dévastaient la région.
Violent, looting mercenary troops devastated the region.
Les Australiens voulaient éliminer les émeus en 1932 parce qu'ils dévastaient leurs récoltes.
Australians wanted to kill off the emus in 1932 because they were devastating their crops.
L'hôte répondit qu'il n'avait pas de poulets, parce que les milans dévastaient le pays.
The landlord replied he had no chickens, for the kites had stolen them.
En novembre 1999, j'étais intervenue dans ce même hémicycle à la suite, déjà, de la tempête qui avait sévi dans le sud-ouest de la France, pour faire appel à la solidarité européenne quand des catastrophes naturelles de grande ampleur dévastaient nos pays.
In November 1999, I took the floor in this very Chamber following the storm which had raged in south-west France, to call for European solidarity when wide-scale natural disasters lay waste to our countries.
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