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
Medb	-	Irish Mythology
Moisey	mah-ee-SYAY	Russian
Camron	KAM-rən	English (Modern)
Kian (2)	-	English (Modern)
Muhammad	mu-HAHM-mahd (Arabic)	Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali, Tajik, Indonesian, Malay
Edward	ED-wərd (English), ED-vahrt (Polish)	English, Polish