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LAY WASTE TO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lay waste to mean?
• LAY WASTE TO (verb)
The verb LAY WASTE TO has 1 sense:
1. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Familiarity information: LAY WASTE TO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
desolate; devastate; lay waste to; ravage; scourge; waste
Context example:
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
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
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