| VERB | change | lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly |
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| Meaning | Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" | |
| Synonyms | waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge | |
| Narrower | ruin | Reduce to ruins |
| Broader | destroy, ruin | Destroy completely |
| Spanish | arrasar, asolar, desgastar, desolar, destrozar, destruir, devastar, gastar | |
| Catalan | arrasar, assolar, desgastar, destrossar, devastar, gastar | |
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