Found 3 items, similar to Desolating.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: desolate
desolate
adj 1: providing no shelter or sustenance;
“bare rocky hills”;
“barren lands”;
“the bleak treeless regions of the
high Andes”;
“the desolate surface of the moon”;
“a
stark landscape” [syn:
bare,
barren,
bleak,
stark]
2: pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment;
“desolate and despairing”;
“left forlorn” [syn:
forlorn,
godforsaken,
lorn]
3: crushed by grief;
“depressed and desolate of soul”;
“a low
desolate wail”
4: made uninhabitable;
“upon this blasted heath”- Shakespeare;
“a wasted landscape” [syn:
blasted,
desolated,
devastated,
ravaged,
ruined,
wasted]
desolate
v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the
lurch;
“The mother deserted her children” [syn:
abandon,
forsake,
desert]
2: reduce in population;
“The epidemic depopulated the
countryside” [syn:
depopulate]
3: devastate or ravage;
“The enemy lay waste to the countryside
after the invasion” [syn:
lay waste to,
waste,
devastate,
ravage,
scourge]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Desolating
Desolate
\Des"o*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Desolated; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Desolating.]
1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of
inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the
flood.
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2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a
city.
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Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war.
--Sparks.
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