| 单词 | to lay waste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay waste b. to lay waste: to devastate, ravage (land, buildings). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) harryc893 fordoc900 awesteeOE westeeOE losec950 harrowc1000 destroyc1230 wastec1275 ravishc1325 to lie waste1338 exilea1382 to-wastea1382 unronea1400 desolatea1425 vast1434 fruster?a1513 to lay waste1535 wipe1535 devast1537 depopulate1548 populate1552 forwaste1563 ruinate1564 havoc1575 scourge1576 dispopulate1588 destitute1593 ravage1602 harassa1618 devastate1638 execute1679 to make stroy of1682 to lay in ashes1711 untown1783 hell-rake1830 uncity1850 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxix. 7 For they haue deuoured Iacob, and layed waiste his dwellinge place. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xix All the countrie aboute layde waste. 1563–4 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 257 Layand thairthrow waist ane grete part of the cuntre. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxiv. 42 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 96 Not one house doth stand..But they by fire haue laide it waste. 1610 R. Niccols Winter Night's Vision: Robert Duke of Normandy l There all the host as towards Nice we past, With spoilefull hands laid all the countrie wast. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxxv. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate. View more context for this quotation 1682 W. Beveridge Serm. Excellency & Usefulness Common Prayer 1 When Judas Maccabeus had..repaired the Temple at Hierusalem, after it had been polluted and laid waste. 1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1843) II. 273 Which, like columns of locusts, have laid waste the fairest part of the world. 1824 T. Campbell Theodric 346 For war laid waste his native land once more. 1876 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxv, in Monthly Packet Apr. 302 Villages were burnt and laid waste. 1890 S. Lane-Poole Barbary Corsairs i. ix. 96 He laid waste the Apulian coast. < as lemmas |
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