lay waste

Verb

 * 1)  To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.

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 citation above.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐρημόω
 * Ido:
 * Irish: bánaigh, fásaigh, folmhaigh
 * Italian: mettere a ferro e fuoco
 * Latin: vastō, dēvastō, populor
 * Portuguese:, vastar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: opustošiti
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: спусто́шувати, спусто́шити, розоря́ти, розори́ти, плюндрува́ти,, пусто́шити