英语词汇“lay waste to (or lay something (to) waste)”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lay waste to (or lay something (to) waste)

Completely destroy: a land laid waste by war...

The Northumbrians rebelled and in devastating reprisals their lands were laid to waste for several generations.
Their cities would be laid waste, their lands desolate.
Factories sprang up like fungi while the countryside was laid waste.

Synonyms

devastate, wipe out, destroy, demolish, annihilate, raze, ruin, leave in ruins, wreck, level, flatten, gut, consume, ravage, pillage, sack, wreak havoc on

literary despoil

rare depredate

See parent entry: waste

单词	lay waste to (or lay something (to) waste)
释义	lay waste to (or lay something (to) waste) Completely destroy: a land laid waste by war... The Northumbrians rebelled and in devastating reprisals their lands were laid to waste for several generations. Their cities would be laid waste, their lands desolate. Factories sprang up like fungi while the countryside was laid waste. Synonyms devastate, wipe out, destroy, demolish, annihilate, raze, ruin, leave in ruins, wreck, level, flatten, gut, consume, ravage, pillage, sack, wreak havoc on literary despoil rare depredate See parent entry: waste
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