LAY WASTE TO

I. (verb)

Meaning:

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Example:

The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

Synonyms:

desolate; devastate; lay waste to; ravage; scourge; waste

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "lay waste to" is one way to...):

destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lay waste to"):

ruin (reduce to ruins)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something