To Lay Waste
To Devastate
transitive verb, godan verb
荒れる is "to be stormy" or "to be rough." This is when you do the stormy rough things. You go wild on everyone, trying to lay waste and to devastate everything around you.
The reading comes from 荒れる.
昨夜車上荒らしにあって、マックを盗まれました。
My car was broken into last night and my mac was stolen.