Lay_waste vs Extinguish - What's the difference?
lay_waste | extinguish | Related terms |
To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 16:
to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
to destroy or abolish something
* 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
to obscure or eclipse something
(psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
(literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
Lay_waste is a related term of extinguish.
In lang=en terms the difference between lay_waste and extinguish
is that lay_waste is to completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region while extinguish is to obscure or eclipse something.As verbs the difference between lay_waste and extinguish
is that lay_waste is to completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region while extinguish is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.lay_waste
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Verb
- Thirsting for revenge, his troops stormed the fortress of Kazan on the upper Volga in 1553, slaughtering the defenders just as the Mongols had done when they laid waste Russia's great cities.
Usage notes
Sometimes takes "to" instead of being simply transitive. Thus, "...they laid waste to Russia's great cities" would be an acceptable alternative to the quote above.extinguish
English
Verb
(es)- She extinguished all my hopes.
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- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.