LAYING WASTE Synonyms

• the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• making light of

• complete destruction of a building

• making light of

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• ruinously destructive and wasting

• the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled

• complete destruction of a building

• the act of breaking something into small pieces

• seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering

• any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

• a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

• kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

• kill in large numbers

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• reduced to nothingness

• mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• remove completely from recognition or memory

• do away with completely, without leaving a trace

• an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

• a ruined building

• the process of becoming dilapidated

• an event that results in destruction

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• destroy or cause to fail

• reduce to bankruptcy

• reduce to ruins

• deprive of virginity

• fall into ruin

• an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

• an event that results in destruction

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined