lay in ruins
condemn, confound, consume, damn, decimate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, gobble, gut, incinerate,
differentiate - adapt, adjust, alter, analyse, anatomize, argue, atomize, be characteristic, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, break up, calibrate,
mortally ill - bad, below par, down, faint, ill, indisposed, laid low, off colour, out of sorts, rocky, seedy, sick, unwell ,
bursting with happiness - carried away, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, enraptured, entranced, exalted, exultant, flushed, high, jubilant, overjoyed, possessed, rapt, rapturous,
laws - book, code, generality ,
idiomatic - dialect, local, provincial, regional, vulgar ,
uneconomical - expensive, feckless, grasshopper, heedless, improvident, negligent, shiftless, thoughtless ,
silent - aphonic, brief, brusque, calm, checked, close, close-lipped, close-mouthed, close-tongued, concise, curbed, curt, dumb, economical of words, hush as death,
coolish - bracing, chill, chilly, cool, fresh, invigorating, stimulating, temperate ,
done with - abandoned, abjured, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, antiquated, antique, archaic, at an end, cancelled, cleaned up, complete, completed, concluded,
exclamatory noun - adjective, adverb, conjunction, disjunctive, interjection, part of speech, participle, particle, preposition ,
mortally ill - bad, below par, down, faint, ill, indisposed, laid low, off colour, out of sorts, rocky, seedy, sick, unwell ,
bursting with happiness - carried away, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, enraptured, entranced, exalted, exultant, flushed, high, jubilant, overjoyed, possessed, rapt, rapturous,
laws - book, code, generality ,
idiomatic - dialect, local, provincial, regional, vulgar ,
uneconomical - expensive, feckless, grasshopper, heedless, improvident, negligent, shiftless, thoughtless ,
silent - aphonic, brief, brusque, calm, checked, close, close-lipped, close-mouthed, close-tongued, concise, curbed, curt, dumb, economical of words, hush as death,
coolish - bracing, chill, chilly, cool, fresh, invigorating, stimulating, temperate ,
done with - abandoned, abjured, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, antiquated, antique, archaic, at an end, cancelled, cleaned up, complete, completed, concluded,
exclamatory noun - adjective, adverb, conjunction, disjunctive, interjection, part of speech, participle, particle, preposition ,