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lay in ruins
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  • lay waste — Synonyms and related words: assault, attack, barbarize, batter, bring to ruin, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry on, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Lay Brothers — • Religious occupied solely with manual labour and with the secular affairs of a monastery or friary Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Lay Brothers     Lay Brothers      …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Lay brother — In the most common usage, lay brothers are those members of Catholic religious orders, particularly of monastic orders, occupied primarily with manual labour and with the secular affairs of a monastery or friary, in contrast to the choir monks of …   Wikipedia

  • lay waste — {v. phr.}, {literary} To cause wide and great damage to; destroy and leave in ruins; wreck. * /Enemy soldiers laid waste the land./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • lay waste — {v. phr.}, {literary} To cause wide and great damage to; destroy and leave in ruins; wreck. * /Enemy soldiers laid waste the land./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • lay\ waste — v. phr. literary To cause wide and great damage to; destroy and leave in ruins; wreck. Enemy soldiers laid waste the land …   Словарь американских идиом

  • lay waste — destroy and leave in ruins, wreck The army troops laid waste to the enemy territory …   Idioms and examples

  • in ruins — 1 the abbey is in ruins: DERELICT, ruined, in disrepair, falling to pieces, dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, decrepit, decaying, ruinous. 2 his …   Useful english dictionary

  • Waverley Abbey — The ruins of Waverley Abbey. Waverley Manor by the River Wey …   Wikipedia

  • ruin — 01. A sudden rainstorm [ruined] our picnic. 02. All our photographs were [ruined] when my little boy accidentally opened my camera. 03. Clarence Darrow once joked that the first half of our life is [ruined] by our parents, and the second half by… …   Grammatical examples in English

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