Englishravage
verb
the inhabitants of the country had been decimated, their land ravaged:
lay waste, devastate, ruin, leave in ruins, destroy, wreak havoc on, leave desolate, level, raze, demolish, wipe out, wreck, damage;
pillage, plunder, harry, maraud, ransack, sack, loot;
literary despoil, rape;
archaic spoil, havoc;
rare depredate, spoliate.