Translation for "lay waste" to spanish
Lay waste
verb
Translation examples
verb
(Devastate, verb, to lay waste, to render desolate;
Devastar», verbo, destruir, arruinar o asolar;
Hannibal took this dream to mean that he was destined to lay waste to all of Italy.
Aníbal interpretó su sueño como que estaba destinado a devastar toda Italia.
Ravage, lay waste the land: make of Culture an open sewer, so that the stench of it would remain forever in the nostrils of memory.
Asolar, devastar la tierra: convertir la Cultura en una alcantarilla abierta, de modo que su hedor permaneciera para siempre en las ventanas de las narices del recuerdo.
The Demons, he warned them, now approached Arborlon, there to exterminate the last of the Elven people, to lay waste to the city, and to take back again the land they had lost centuries ago.
Los demonios, advirtió, se dirigían ahora hacia Arbolon, para exterminar a todo el pueblo de los elfos, para devastar la ciudad y recuperar la tierra que perdieron siglos antes.
In the last two books, HERETICS OF DUNE and CHAPTERHOUSE: DUNE, he had introduced a new threat— the reviled Honored Matres— who proceeded to lay waste to much of the galaxy.
En los dos últimos libros, Herejes de Dune y Casa capitular de Dune, introdujo una nueva amenaza, las vilipendiadas Honorables Matres, que procedían a devastar gran parte de la galaxia.
How can we not share the terror of the people alive at the time, knowing that the Mongol troops were able, over a period of a few months, to lay waste to Baghdad, Damascus, Cracow in Poland and the Chinese province of Szechuan.
¡Cómo no comprender el terror de los contemporáneos, cuando se sabe que las tropas de los mogoles pudieron entonces, con algunos meses de intervalo, devastar Bagdad, Damasco, Cracovia en Polonia y la provincia china de Szechwan!
"By believing," he said, "that it is time that those who claim to be making machines to kill and maim and lay waste ought to have the ethical integrity to really make machines that kill and maim and lay waste instead of machines that constitute an elaborate pretext to finally bring forth a nonentity, a decadent novelty, such as yourself?"
¿Cometo un error al creer que es tiempo de que aquellos que declaman construir máquinas para matar, mutilar y devastar deberían tener la integridad ética para hacer realmente máquinas que matan y mutilan y devastan, en lugar de máquinas que constituyen un elaborado pretexto para poner de manifiesto alguna nulidad, una novedad decadente como tú mismo?
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