| 单词 | to lie waste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lie waste a. to lie waste: To remain in an uncultivated or ruinous condition. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) harryc893 fordoc900 awesteeOE westeeOE losec950 harrowc1000 destroyc1230 wastec1275 ravishc1325 to lie waste1338 exilea1382 to-wastea1382 unronea1400 desolatea1425 vast1434 fruster?a1513 to lay waste1535 wipe1535 devast1537 depopulate1548 populate1552 forwaste1563 ruinate1564 havoc1575 scourge1576 dispopulate1588 destitute1593 ravage1602 harassa1618 devastate1638 execute1679 to make stroy of1682 to lay in ashes1711 untown1783 hell-rake1830 uncity1850 the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > be wild or uncultivated [verb (intransitive)] > grow or remain wild to lie waste1338 wilder1798 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 239 It lies now waste & lorn, half may þei not tille. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. i. A Youre londe lieth waist, youre cities are brent vp. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iiiiv Thryfallowe betime, for destroing of weede:..And better thou warte, so to doe for thy hast: then (hardnes) for slougth make thy lande to lie wast. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 88 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Turris, an ancient City..which had been sack'd by Barbarians, and layen long wast. 1890 D. Davidson Mem. Long Life ix. 214 At the close of the Pindaree war many villages were lying waste in the valley of the Nerbudda for more than thirty years. < as lemmas |
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