desolating

Meaning

of Desolate

Examples

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. Ambrose Bierce

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself my disgust at her barbarity clumsiness darkness bitter mockery of herself is the most desolating. John Ruskin

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