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Verb: lay waste
  1. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
    "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion";
    - lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge

Derived forms: laying waste, lays waste, laid waste

Type of: destroy, ruin, spifflicate, spiflicate

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lay in
lay into
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lay on the line
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lay over
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lay to rest
lay up
lay waste
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lay witness
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layer
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