lay waste to

Questions about lay waste to

What is another word for lay waste to?

It depends which lay waste to you mean. In the sense “cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly”, the synonyms are waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of lay waste to?

WordNet records no antonym for lay waste to. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for lay waste to come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for lay waste toAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for lay waste toWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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