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lain waste

lain waste is the past participle of lie waste.

Meaning of lie waste

Verb

lie waste (third-person singular simple present lies waste, present participle lying waste, simple past lay waste, past participle lain waste)

  1. (intransitive) to be desolate, to be a wasteland
    • the site has lain waste since the factory was demolished

Questions about lain waste

What is lain waste the past participle of?
Lain waste is the past participle of lie waste.

Words near lain waste in the dictionary

  1. lain on the oars
  2. lain over
  3. lain rough
  4. lain to
  5. lain upon
  6. lain waste
  7. lain with
  8. Lainaotabi
  9. Lainaotapi
  10. Lainautabi
  11. Lainautapi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lain waste (page history and authors); lie waste (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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