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How to pronounce lay waste to in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms desolate, devastate, ravage, scourge, waste
Type of destroy, ruin
Has types ruin


The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion.

Examples of lay waste to

lay waste to
Remove cougars from the Eastern Seaboard, and white-tailed deer lay waste to forests.
From the boston.com
Others swap genes, creating new strains of pathogen that lay waste to native species.
From the newscientist.com
He will lay waste to all your fancy strategies like a stealth drone in the September sun.
From the guardian.co.uk
If allowed to get out, it could lay waste to your retirement savings.
From the washingtonpost.com
On the highway, it screams with twin turbos that lay waste to anything else on the asphalt.
From the businessweek.com
He then set out to lay waste to all the Confederate homeland, one-upping Sheridan in the process.
From the infowars.com
He set out to enrich his friends and lay waste to his enemies that he acquired over many years.
From the forbes.com
They are also the animals that are eating all of our grains that lay waste to so much of our land.
From the newscientist.com
The menace most likely to lay waste to the cherished forests of Point Defiance Park is a plant.
From the thenewstribune.com