lay waste to
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- destruction derivation
- ravaging derivation
- ravage derivation
- devastation derivation
- ruiner derivation
- bane derivation
- bareness derivation
- devastation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | destruction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ravaging |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ravage |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ruiner |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bane |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bareness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | ruin |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ruin |