OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 32029

lay waste

Meanings (ES + gloss)
arrasar • devastar • yermar
To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
Thirsting for revenge, his troops stormed the fortress of Kazan on the upper Volga in 1553, slaughtering the defenders just as the Mongols had done when they laid waste Russia's gr…
When she recovered from a bad illness that she had, she laid the whole place waste, as you have seen it, and she has never since looked upon the light of day.
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