lay waste to

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verb

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
• Syn:
waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
• Derivationally related forms:
scourge (for: scourge), ravage (for: ravage), ravaging (for: ravage), desolation (for: desolate), devastation (for: devastate), waster (for: waste)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, ruin
• Hyponyms:
ruin
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something