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Lay waste

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Verb
  1. 1
    To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region. transitive

    "When she recovered from a bad illness that she had, she laid the whole place waste, as you have seen it, and she has never since looked upon the light of day."

  2. 2
    simple past of lie waste form-of, past

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