verwoesten
Meaning
to lay waste, devastate
Concepts
destroy
ruin
quash
dash
demolish
devastate
waste
overthrow
wreck
annihilate
lay waste
ravage
pull down
take down
destruction
spoil
trash
wrack
demolish dash
breakdown
impoverish
retard
damage
blight
break down
unbuild
havoc
depredate
batter down
break
dispel
knock out
shatter
smash up
decimate
eliminate
eradicate
expunge
exterminate
extinguish
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Etymology
Derived from woest (“inhospitable, desolate”). Equivalent to woest + ver- -en. Compare Middle Dutch woesten (“to destroy, waste, plunder”).
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