lay to waste

lay something to waste

and lay waste to something

Fig. to destroy something; to ruin or mess up something. The invaders laid the village to waste. The kids came in and laid waste to my clean house.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Minttu	MEENT-too	Finnish
Rishi	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Nepali
Lupita	loo-PEE-tah	Spanish
Besarion	-	Georgian
GertrÚD	-	Hungarian
Kuzey	-	Turkish