devastado
/debasˈtado/ · B2 · adj
devastated (completely destroyed)
🏚️ sounds like 'deva-stato': a DEVIL left the STATE (place) in ruins
Devastado comes from Latin vastare, 'to lay waste', so it is cousin to English vast, waste and devastate. Link the de- (completely) plus vast (empty waste): a place made completely empty and wasted.