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Meanings of laying waste in English

Portuguese
ruína
Catalan
ruïna
Spanish
desgracia

Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined.

        ruína
        Usage of laying waste in English
        1
        Others understand all this of an army of locusts laying waste the land.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
        2
        Through Picardy he marched eastward burning and laying waste as before.
        Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
        3
        The Spaniards, Germans, and Lorrainers are in the suburbs laying waste the very gardens.
        Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volum...
        4
        The monster was speedily approaching, laying waste all before it.
        Jess of the Rebel Trail
        5
        Then into Wessex went Eadmund, ravaging and laying waste there.
        King Olaf's Kinsman / A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against...
        6
        I stared at the monster laying waste to the city.
        Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
        7
        They're laying waste to their whole top floor, those boys.
        Up in the air
        8
        The soldiers are going about in bands destroying and laying waste every house and garden.
        The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
        9
        Simple: laying waste to North Korea, and maybe Iran.
        Wired
        10
        A civil war which is laying waste the country.
        Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nas...
        11
        But on Tuesday our army will surely march, laying waste the Indian towns and fields.
        The Hidden Children
        12
        Her people now had the job of redressing the matter by laying waste to Amber.
        The Great Book of Amber
        13
        Domestic cats in Kaikōura are laying waste to the eggs of a rare shore bird.
        Radio NZ
        14
        Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London.
        The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
        15
        They then changed their tactics and retired before him, laying waste the country as they went.
        Roman life in the days of Cicero
        16
        Plant species have climbed uphill, and bark beetles are laying waste to ever-increasing tracts of woodland.
        Wired
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        Translations for laying waste
        Portuguese
        ruína
        Laying waste through the time
        Laying waste across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Common