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lay waste
Idioms and Phrases
Ravage, ruin, as in The hurricane laid waste the entire seashore . Originally referring to the devastation caused by attackers, this term has come to be used more generally.Example Sentences
This weekend, you can see Sly lay waste to hundreds of fools in The Expendables 3.
Haste, and the taste of impending political doom lay waste to the truth.
They declared that they would lay waste all the settlements on the Connecticut,—meaning, it seems, to begin with Hatfield.
The Master said, To tell unto the dust all that we hear upon the way is to lay waste the mind.
In consequence of these, and other ravages at a later period, the whole region lay waste for a long season.
Bothvar said, "This hall is not so well arrayed as I thought, if one beast can lay waste the kingdom and the cattle of the king."
Sometimes they congregate in swarms, like locusts, and migrate from one locality to another, when they lay waste everything.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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