What does laying waste mean?

laying waste means "destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined".

What is another word for laying waste?

Close synonyms include ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laying waste a common word?

laying waste is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

laying waste — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
Synonymsruin ruining ruination wrecking
Broaderdestruction

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What does laying waste mean?: laying waste means "destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined".
What is another word for laying waste?: Close synonyms include ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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