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'lay waste to' is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
You use it to refer to the destruction of something or to defeat something decisively. Example: The ruthless invaders laid waste to the once prosperous kingdom.
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They quite simply lay waste to everything in their path.
Yet we lay waste to the accessible portion.
DOES the cold lay waste to your soul?
Thomas is happy to lay waste to decades, even centuries, of constitutional law.
The governor decided after careful deliberation to lay waste to Mr. Sweeney's proposed budget.
The Suebi and the Asding Vandals meanwhile continued to lay waste to Spain.
The digital video recorder was supposed to lay waste to network television.
One has to wonder, though, as populists lay waste to Republican incumbents.
Netflix, which was supposed to lay waste to traditional media companies, may have saved them instead.
Translation: you can't just spend loads of cash to lay waste to your foes.
His diabolical assistance allowed them to lay waste to frontier settlements -- and then disappear.
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