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Devast vs Devest - What's the difference?

devast | devest |

As verbs the difference between devast and devest

is that devast is to devastate while devest is to divest; to undress.

devast

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To devastate.
    • (Bolingbroke)
    (Webster 1913)

    devest

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To divest; to undress.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (legal) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
  • (legal) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
    • (Webster 1913) ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Numeral

    (sh-numeral)
  • ninety

    • Synonyms

    * (l) (Standard)