desolate
adjective
barren or laid waste; devastated.
desolates
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present tense formof desolate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But your misrepresentation which pained me most, in fact desolates me to the extent that I am unfit for work, is your statement that I weigh 200 Ib.
From Time Magazine Archive
He visits Barbara's soup kitchen shelter and proves with an open checkbook that he can bribe the poor and buy the Army, which desolates Barbara.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sudden death of Leontes' young son desolates him.
From Time Magazine Archive
He desolates the whole Mohammedan kingdom—and still he is not sated.
From Folk-Tales of Napoleon The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder by George Kennan
It had to call to its aid the infernal fruit can that now desolates the most obscure trail in the heart of the mountains.
From Remarks by Bill Nye
