SCORCHED EARTH


Meaning of SCORCHED EARTH in English

A ~ policy is the deliberate burning, destruction, and removal by an army of everything that would be useful to an enemy coming into the area.

He employed a scorched-earth policy, destroying villages and burning crops.

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