lay waste
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lay waste
verb lays waste · laying waste · laid waste
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To completely destroy, especially a geographical area or region.
When she recovered from a bad illness that she had, she laid the whole place waste, as you have seen it, and she has never since looked upon the light of day.
Similar: devastate, ravage, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose
verb
- simple past of lie waste
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verb to completely destroy
| Español | arrasar, devastar, yermar |
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| Português | devastar, vastar |
| Deutsch | verheeren, verwüsten |
| Italiano | mettere a ferro e fuoco |
| Română | devasta |
| Русский | опустоша́ть opustošátʹ, опустоши́ть opustošítʹ, разоря́ть razorjátʹ, разори́ть razorítʹ |
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