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Definition of Laying waste
1. Noun. Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined.
Generic synonyms: Destruction, Devastation
Derivative terms: Ruin, Ruin, Ruin, Ruin, Ruin, Wreck
Definition of Laying waste
1. Verb. (present participle of lay waste) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laying Waste
Literary usage of Laying waste
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"own frontier secured, or if the approaches to a town intended to be attacked
cannot be made without laying waste the intermediate territory, ..."
2. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"... suppose me Jacobins to be the name of some Tartar horde, who, after laying
waste France for ten years, were at last expelled by the native inhabitants. ..."
3. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1828)
"... being overawed themselves by a powerful army of Syracusans, who ^ere laying
waste their country. The Tyrians, therefore, frustrated in their hopes, ..."
4. History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1852)
"... greatest violence, laying waste the plantation, beating down Napoleon's favorite
willow, the one only solitary green tree left standing by the storm, ..."
5. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"Among the prisoners were several noble lords of castles who,possessed of large
domains, held a high rank among the barons of their and laying waste the ..."
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