Wéstan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wéstan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- wéstan
- p. te To lay waste, devastate, desolate :-- Hine wilde deór wéstaþ and frettaþ singularis ferus depastus est eam, Ps. Th. 79, 13. Hí his wícstede wéstan locum ejus desolaverunt, 78, 7. Hié wæron ðæt lond herigende and wéstende, Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 44, 20. [Heo westen þat lond, Laym. 1754. O. Sax. á-wóstian : O. H. Ger. wuosten vastare.]