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
"You at least do not hate me," she says, with a faint, sobbing cadence in her voice, that desolates, but sweetens it.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
"Conscience desolates the mind, when it deprives it of its proper power and tranquillity, and introduces into it perpetual disquietude."
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by John Selby Watson
