desolate
adjective
barren or laid waste; devastated.
have desolated
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present perfectof desolate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The rootstock contains a large quantity of starch which has been utilized for food in the periods of famine which have desolated India and Egypt.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Of the floods that have desolated the city, the greatest was that of November, 1824.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Yet it is from the bosom of this desert district that has descended the most frightful visitation ever known to have desolated the island.
From Letters from High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin
The outer slopes of the mountain afforded then a remarkably fertile soil; some traces, indeed, of the fertility have withstood the modern eruptions which have desolated its flanks.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
The spectacle of his secret squalor would have desolated the old lady.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
