Desolating
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Desolating is an adjective meaning Causing anguish and despair.
Meaning
Causing anguish and despair.
More Meanings
- Destructive; ruinous.
- present participle and gerund of desolate
Example Sentences
Roger's Death was a more intimate and a more desolating event than the death of Lytton.
In the reign of Henry VI. commenced one of the most desolating of wars — the War of the Roses.
It prospered from its first opening until another war, more desolating than that of the Revolution, called away its students, diminished its property, and impoverished its patrons.
Why, that it was the cause of Pure Democracy which we were thus called on to support; of universal suffrage, Jacobin clubs, and a furious press; of revolutionary confiscation, democratic anarchy, and unbridled injustice; of the most desolating of tyrannies, the most ruinous of despotisms.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forsaken, forlorn, lorn, wasted, godforsaken, inconsolable.
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