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Meanings of laying waste in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ruin"
Examples for "ruin"
1
Of course you ruin the whole effect wearin' runnin' shoes with it.
2
Only Seoul, he said, could help save the impoverished state from ruin.
3
The moment felt too good to ruin with words, so she didn't.
4
He's under constant threat of ruin through the loss of his animals.
5
Under the shadow of the crisis his character was going to ruin.
1
This vein of talk is a sure way of ruining an evening.
2
And we're tired of the great consumer circus ruining it for us.
3
Her parents accused her of ruining the house and carrying on disgracefully.
4
We just come here to talk and you're ruining my friend's skirt.
5
A. and he was in the way of ruining my young life.
1
It abides by the result of the referendum without wrecking our economy.
2
The malicious demon concealed in the ink bottle delights in wrecking love.
3
No less extraordinary is the pork-barrel tradition wrecking state and national budgets.
4
So is PMQs really wrecking Westminster's reputation and turning people off politics?
5
Kiera's wrecking teams hadn't got round to 'reclaiming' it from Rubra's control.
1
It would give me only the freedom to bring ruination to Africa.
2
Now they were faced with the wreckage and ruination of their efforts.
3
Both San Martino and Doberdo are destroyed beyond the limits of ruination.
4
The cost of upkeep has been the ruination of many a homeowner.
5
This matter between them had nothing to do with ruination or fortifications.
Usage of laying waste in English
1
Others understand all this of an army of locusts laying waste the land.
2
Through Picardy he marched eastward burning and laying waste as before.
3
The Spaniards, Germans, and Lorrainers are in the suburbs laying waste the very gardens.
4
The monster was speedily approaching, laying waste all before it.
5
Then into Wessex went Eadmund, ravaging and laying waste there.
6
I stared at the monster laying waste to the city.
7
They're laying waste to their whole top floor, those boys.
8
The soldiers are going about in bands destroying and laying waste every house and garden.
9
Simple: laying waste to North Korea, and maybe Iran.
10
A civil war which is laying waste the country.
11
But on Tuesday our army will surely march, laying waste the Indian towns and fields.
12
Her people now had the job of redressing the matter by laying waste to Amber.
13
Domestic cats in Kaikōura are laying waste to the eggs of a rare shore bird.
14
Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London.
15
They then changed their tactics and retired before him, laying waste the country as they went.
16
Plant species have climbed uphill, and bark beetles are laying waste to ever-increasing tracts of woodland.
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Translations for laying waste
Portuguese
Catalan
Laying waste through the time
Laying waste across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common