laying waste
51assault — Synonyms and related words: abuse, aggravated assault, aggression, ambush, amphibious attack, armed assault, assail, assailing, assailment, attack, banzai attack, barbarize, batter, battering, battery, bear, bear upon, beat up, beating, berating …
52depredation — Synonyms and related words: banditry, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, carnage, consumption, damnation, decimation, desolation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, direption, disintegration,… …
53rape — Synonyms and related words: abduction, abuse, assault, assault sexually, attack, banditry, barbarize, batter, battering, betray, betrayal, brigandage, brigandism, brutalize, burn, butcher, butchery, capture, carry on, compromise, criminal assault …
54riot — Synonyms and related words: abundance, ado, affluence, affray, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, anarchism, anarchy, arise, assault, attack, avalanche, barbarize, batter, battering, battle, belly laugh, best seller, big hit, blue story,… …
55Dunkeld and Dowally — DUNKELD and DOWALLY, a parish, in the county of Perth, 15 miles (N. by W.) from Perth, and 55 (N. N. W.) from Edinburgh; comprising the ancient city of Dunkeld, partly within the parish of Caputh; for many years the seat of the primacy of the… …
56Pettie, or Petty — PETTIE, or PETTY, a parish, partly in the county of Nairn, but chiefly in the mainland district of the county of Inverness, 6½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Inverness; containing, with the villages of Connage and Stuartown, 1749 inhabitants, of… …
57pillage — v 1. plunder, rob, despoil, Archaic. spoil, spoliate, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, maraud, devastate, lay waste, depredate; ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, strip, rifle, steal; desecrate, defile, outrage, violate. 2. desolate,… …
58plunder — v 1. rob, despoil, Archaic. spoil, spoliate, pillage, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, maraud, devastate, depredate; ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, strip, rifle; raid, foray, forage, prey on or upon; lay waste, desolate, wreak havoc… …
59Depopulate — De*pop u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Depopulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Depopulating}.] [L. depopulatus, p. p. of depopulari to ravage; de + populari to ravage, fr. populus people: cf. OF. depopuler, F. d[ e]peupler. See {People}.] To deprive of… …
60Depopulated — Depopulate De*pop u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Depopulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Depopulating}.] [L. depopulatus, p. p. of depopulari to ravage; de + populari to ravage, fr. populus people: cf. OF. depopuler, F. d[ e]peupler. See {People}.] To… …
