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Synonyms for Desolating:
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adj.
• devastating- de solating ,
- de-solating ,
- more annihilating ,
- more desolating ,
- more mortifying ,
- most annihilating ,
- most desolating ,
- most mortifying ,
- over whelming ,
- over-whelming .
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v.
• destroying Other relevant words:
- abandon ,
- abandonment ,
- abasement ,
- abjection ,
- anarchist ,
- annihilative ,
- atrophy ,
- avid ,
- awful ,
- awkward ,
- bagging ,
- baleful ,
- bang-up ,
- bare ,
- bareness ,
- barren ,
- bereaved ,
- bereft ,
- black ,
- blasting ,
- bleak ,
- bleakness ,
- blue ,
- breakdown ,
- bully ,
- cachexia ,
- cachexy ,
- cadaverous ,
- cheerless ,
- clumsy ,
- corking ,
- cracking ,
- crumble ,
- crushing ,
- damnatory ,
- dandy ,
- dark ,
- death ,
- deathly ,
- debasement ,
- decadence ,
- decadency ,
- declension ,
- decline ,
- decline in quality ,
- decompose ,
- decomposition ,
- decrepitude ,
- defection ,
- degeneracy ,
- demolition ,
- demoralising ,
- demoralizing ,
- denudation ,
- deplorable ,
- depopulate ,
- depressed ,
- derogation ,
- desert ,
- desperate ,
- desperation ,
- deucedly ,
- devastate ,
- devilishly ,
- devolvement ,
- dilapidate ,
- dingy ,
- direful ,
- disassembly ,
- discharge ,
- disconsolate ,
- disheartening ,
- disintegrate ,
- disintegration ,
- dismantlement ,
- dismissal ,
- dismission ,
- disparagement ,
- distressful ,
- disturbing ,
- down ,
- down in the mouth ,
- downhearted ,
- drab ,
- dread ,
- dreaded ,
- dreadful ,
- drear ,
- economical ,
- emaciated ,
- end ,
- equalisation ,
- equalization ,
- esurient ,
- evacuation ,
- fearful ,
- fearsome ,
- firing ,
- foreboding ,
- forlornness ,
- forsake ,
- forsaking ,
- frightening ,
- frugal ,
- gloomful ,
- glooming ,
- grading ,
- great ,
- greedy ,
- grief-stricken ,
- grieving ,
- grievous ,
- grim ,
- groovy ,
- haggard ,
- horrendous ,
- horrific ,
- husking ,
- ill-chosen ,
- impairment ,
- inapt ,
- inept ,
- insanely ,
- insurgent ,
- keen ,
- lamentable ,
- lay waste to ,
- lethal ,
- liberation ,
- lifelessly ,
- listless ,
- loneliness ,
- low ,
- low-spirited ,
- lunger ,
- madly ,
- mortal ,
- mournful ,
- mourning ,
- nakedness ,
- neat ,
- neglect ,
- nifty ,
- not bad ,
- old ,
- old-age pension ,
- overwhelming ,
- peachy ,
- pernicious ,
- perturbing ,
- pestilent ,
- pinched ,
- pitiful ,
- portentous ,
- putrefaction ,
- radioactive decay ,
- ravage ,
- reduction ,
- release ,
- rental ,
- retirement benefit ,
- retirement check ,
- retirement fund ,
- retirement pension ,
- retrogression ,
- revolutionary ,
- revolutionist ,
- ripping ,
- rot ,
- ruin ,
- ruination ,
- sack ,
- sad ,
- scotch ,
- scourge ,
- seditious ,
- sepulchral ,
- shattering ,
- shoe polish ,
- skeletal ,
- slap-up ,
- sorry ,
- splitting ,
- stark ,
- stinting ,
- stripping ,
- subverter ,
- sulky ,
- swell ,
- syndicalist ,
- taxing ,
- terrible ,
- torturesome ,
- torturing ,
- troubling ,
- tubercular ,
- tyrannical ,
- tyrannous ,
- uncheerful ,
- uncovering ,
- uneconomical ,
- venomous ,
- virulent ,
- voidance ,
- waste ,
- wasted ,
- wasting away ,
- wear and tear ,
- wipeout ,
- worrisome ,
- worrying ,
- worsening ,
- wrenching ,
- wretchedness ,
- Abandoning ,
- Blaming ,
- Blunting ,
- Depopulating ,
- Depredatory ,
- Deserting ,
- Desolater ,
- Ditching ,
- Doomful ,
- Emaciating ,
- Exposing ,
- Fratricidal ,
- Languishing ,
- Lavishing ,
- Liquidating ,
- Macerating ,
- Scourging ,
- Stranding ,
- Subversionary ,
- Vandalic ,
- Waring ,
- agonising ,
- agonizing ,
- balding ,
- baneful ,
- baring ,
- blacking ,
- burdensome ,
- calamitous ,
- cataclysmal ,
- cataclysmic ,
- catastrophic ,
- consuming ,
- consumptive ,
- cumbersome ,
- cumbrous ,
- damning ,
- deadly ,
- decay ,
- defecting ,
- degenerates ,
- degeneration ,
- degradation ,
- degradations ,
- demolitionary ,
- depreciation ,
- depressing ,
- desertion ,
- desolate ,
- desolation ,
- despair ,
- destruction ,
- destructive ,
- deterioration ,
- devastation ,
- devolution ,
- devouring ,
- dilapidation ,
- dire ,
- disastrous ,
- dismal ,
- dispirited ,
- dispiriting ,
- disrepair ,
- distressing ,
- disuse ,
- doleful ,
- downcast ,
- downing ,
- dreary ,
- emptying ,
- excruciating ,
- fatal ,
- fateful ,
- forlorn ,
- funereal ,
- gaunt ,
- gloomy ,
- harrowing ,
- heartbreaking ,
- heartrending ,
- heartsickening ,
- internecine ,
- misery ,
- nihilist ,
- nihilistic ,
- obsolescence ,
- obsoleteness ,
- oldness ,
- onerous ,
- oppressive ,
- racking ,
- ravaging ,
- reducing ,
- rending ,
- renting ,
- rotting ,
- ruining ,
- ruinous ,
- sacking ,
- saddening ,
- savaging ,
- self-destructive ,
- sorrowing ,
- sparing ,
- squandering ,
- subversive ,
- suicidal ,
- superannuation ,
- tormenting ,
- torturous ,
- tragical ,
- vandalistic ,
- wasteful ,
- wasting ,
- withering .
Usage examples for Desolating
This reactionary policy, which has continued ever since-this return to the hated old methods of arbitrary and repressive rule-produced, as was inevitable, deep and general discontent at the very moment when the great historical measure of serf emancipation was Desolating the families of the landed gentry, province after province; and when the execution of the Emancipation Act was completed in 1870, Russian society was already quivering with dangerous elements of revolt.
"Contemporary Socialism"
With an instant clenching of his teeth he pulled down the blinds upon that Desolating view.
"Fortitude"
"It might be anything at all, you see," she said with Desolating common sense.
"Helena Brett's Career"
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