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vb. (en-pastlay waste)
Usage examples of "laid waste".
They were clever, efficient foragers, and where they passed, they laid waste.
From lair to lair of my rivals we go, and let Avernus be laid waste!
The Devils from the Eastern Sea came with their guns and their tanks and raped our earth, and then, after warlord Mao Tse-tung and warlord Chiang Kai-shek beat them off, they fought among themselves and again the land was laid waste.
So the gates remained closed, and to protect one thirtieth of one per cent of the land around the villages, all the rest was laid waste.
You see, other nations beyond this plateau, in the southern highlands and in the coastal Hot Lands, they had not been laid waste by the climatic catastrophe.
Though you should find all barren and laid waste, there will be few gardens in Middle-earth that will bloom like your garden, if you sprinkle this earth there.
They were living from day to day on what their convoys brought in, once the countryside was laid waste.
He could do no less than make himself of the fullest use in this situationand that was not to hide, lying in wait while the Ekhat laid waste to this world, when there were viable alternatives available.