lay waste

Meaning

1. lay sth waste

   to destroy a place completely

In the movies · 4

• First, I'll lay waste to those fools in Shirabad.Aladdin2019
• I fail to see how laying waste to Continentals is getting you closer to killing John WickJohn Wick: Chapter 42023
• He could turn the day into night and lay to waste everything in his path.Raising Arizona1987

Learn it in full scenes

• Aladdin2019
  • The Mariner Tells Aladdin's Story
  • Aladdin's One Jump Ahead Chase
  • Aladdin Shares His Rooftop Home

From the same entry

• waste your breath
• waste not, want not
• waste away
• a waste of space