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LAY WASTE TO
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Example:
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Synonyms:
desolate; devastate; lay waste to; ravage; scourge; waste
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "lay waste to" is one way to...):
destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lay waste to"):
ruin (reduce to ruins)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
