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View definitions for lay waste

lay waste

verb as in consume

verb as in desolate

verb as in pauperize

verb as in sack

verb as in waste

verb as in wreak havoc

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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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On this page you'll find 681 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lay waste, such as: devastate, eat up, exhaust, expend, overwhelm, and ravage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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