intransitive. To make predatory raids or incursions; to commit ravages.

To destroy, ruin, spoil, wreck (a place or thing); to lay waste (land). archaic.

transitive. To destroy (something), esp. to lay waste to (a country, town, etc.).

transitive. To lay waste to (a place).

transitive. To destroy, ruin, bring to destruction or perdition; to be the ruin of. Obsolete.

transitive. To harry, rob, spoil. Used especially in the phrase to harrow hell, said of Christ.

To lay waste, ravage, make desolate. Obsolete.

To lay waste, devastate, ravage, ruin (a land or town, its inhabitants, property, etc.).

transitive. To plunder, rob, steal from (a place, building, race or class of people, etc.); to devastate, lay waste to (a country). Also figurative…

to lie waste: To remain in an uncultivated or ruinous condition.

transitive. To devastate, ravage, bring to ruin. Cf. to put in exile at exile, n.1 3. Obsolete.

to waste greatly.

transitive. To make desolate, lay waste.

To devastate, lay waste; to make bare, barren, or unfit for habitation.

transitive. To lay waste, destroy.

To bring to nought, render useless; to frustrate (an enterprise); to destroy, lay waste, ruin. Also intransitive for reflexive.

to lay waste: to devastate, ravage (land, buildings).

(with away, out) To obliterate, efface, erase. Obsolete as a specific sense.

transitive. To lay waste, devastate, v.

transitive. To ravage, plunder, lay waste. Obsolete.

transitive. To devastate, ravage. Also intransitive.

transitive. = waste, v. in various senses; to lay waste; to use up, exhaust; to render emaciated or feeble; to spend wastefully.

transitive. To cause great and usually irreparable damage to (something). Cf. ruin, v. 3a Now chiefly archaic and regional.

transitive. To make havoc of; to devastate; to lay waste. Also absol.

figurative. To punish, chastise, correct (often said of God, with reference to Hebrews xii. 6); to ‘lash’ with satire or invective; to afflict…

= depopulate, v.

To leave destitute or waste, to lay waste.

transitive. Originally: to devastate, lay waste (land, a country, etc.), as by deliberate destruction or plunder. Later more generally: to cause…

To harry, lay waste, devastate, plunder. Obsolete.

transitive. To lay waste, ravage, waste, render desolate.

To subject (a country) to military execution. (See execution, n. 9) Obsolete.

Destruction. to make stroy of, to make spoil of, pillage.

transferred or figurative. Ruins, remains. to lay in ashes: to burn to the ground, destroy utterly.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1d(b).)

transitive. To treat wildly or destructively; to devastate; to massacre.

To destroy as a city.