Create and Lay waste

Create

Create verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Lay waste is an antonym for create.

Lay waste

Definitions of Create not found.

Create is an antonym for lay waste in topics: demolish, ravage, sack, ruin, destroy.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Giant Spider aka: Giant Spiders In Richard Ryan's Funnelweb (1998), a nuclear accident has caused mutations which create giant funnelweb spiders (which are one of the most poisonous of all spiders) which lay waste to Sydney and bring Australia to its knees as it is quarantined by the rest of the world.
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