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
The sudden death of Leontes' young son desolates him.
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
It desolates me to hear of her extremity," the captain answered, with a fine irony, "but I am here to do my duty.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
Oh very fair! smiling, cultivated, and green, like England, but far happier; for slavery which disgraces the New World, and poverty which desolates the Old, are nowhere to be seen.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
