hacer estragos

v.

to cause great damage, to create chaos, to cause destruction, to cause ruin.

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(v.) = lay + waste to, create + havoc, wreak + havoc, cause + havoc, take + Posesivo + toll (on)

Ex. The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.

Ex. Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere.

Ex. I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.

Ex. It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.

Ex. The pressures which modern society puts on all its members are great and those pressures take their toll.

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(v.) = lay + waste to, create + havoc, wreak + havoc, cause + havoc, take + Posesivo + toll (on)

Ex: The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.

Ex: Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere.

Ex: I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.

Ex: It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.

Ex: The pressures which modern society puts on all its members are great and those pressures take their toll.