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| ⇒ lay waste to; не путать с lie waste | |||
| губить (impf of погубить); запустошить; опустошить (pf of опустошать); погубить (pf of губить) | |||
| разорять; опустошить (Thirsting for revenge, his troops stormed the fortress of Kazan on the upper Volga in 1553, slaughtering the defenders just as the Mongols had done when they laid waste Russia's great cities.); вычиститься; вычищаться; опустошаться; погубить; разрушать; разрушаться; разрушить; разрушиться; подвергать разорению (Vadim Rouminsky); опустошать (to make (a piece of land) into barren country by burning and plundering) | |||
| вычистить (pf of вычищать); вычищать (impf of вычистить) | |||
| пустошить | |||
| губить | |||
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to completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region (transitive; simple past and past participle laid waste) • In addition to racking up what looks like a substantial offscreen body count, the movie at one point offers an eight-second introduction for a sleazy used-car salesman character for the sole purpose of justifying Tripp and Creech laying waste to his inventory.  wiktionary.org • Thirsting for revenge, his troops stormed the fortress of Kazan on the upper Volga in 1553, slaughtering the defenders just as the Mongols had done when they laid waste Russia's great cities. Usage notes: Sometimes takes "to" instead of being simply transitive. Thus, "...they laid waste to Russia's great cities" would be an acceptable alternative to the quote above.) | |||
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lay waste : 15 phrases, 2 sujets |
| Général | 13 |
| Makarov | 2 |