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to lay waste
  1. 1 to lay waste, to devastate, to damage
  2. 2 to invade, to break into
  3. 3 to troll (e.g. web forums), to spam
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • Who destroyed the garden?

    sense 1 · to lay waste

  • They robbed my orchard.

    sense 2 · to invade

  • I just don't understand what goes through the minds of people who troll forums.

    sense 3 · to troll (e.g. web forums)

  • The country had been devastated by long war.

    sense 1 · to lay waste

  • It's a shame the way natural resources are wasted.

    sense 1 · to lay waste

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