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Meanings of desolate (desolates) in anglès
To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
Sinònims
Examples for "desert"
Examples for "desert"
1
The two countries have substantial and vital desert training, military officials say.
2
We wish to harm them. Now the desert people understood the situation.
3
A year ago, you told me it had all gone to desert.
4
Leaving Thurstane in the desert, we return to Clara in the desert.
5
Left foot: the story of reggae's love affair with Clarks desert boot.
1
MANY third level students will abandon lectures today to hold protest demonstrations.
2
King's Landing was lost, all agreed; they must need abandon the city.
3
A preliminary injunction often leads to companies deciding to abandon their deal.
4
Cut production; abandon the factories in the immediate path of the Grass.
5
They suffered a good deal and had to abandon their home, twice.
1
His characteristic firmness and decision did not forsake him in this crisis.
2
She would not forsake Paolo even in the gloomy regions of despair.
3
I consent to anything; never will I forsake this dear little basket.
4
The blessing of God did not forsake Abraham in old age, either.
5
But to forsake the duke would have been the maddest of follies.
Usage of desolates in anglès
1
You have no idea of the ennui that desolates the hemispheres.
2
The shock of the contest upturns Society and desolates the Land.
3
He desolates the whole Mohammedan kingdom-andstill he is not sated.
4
The grain Aphis, in certain years, desolates our wheat fields.
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To secure this, we must stop the war that now desolates our once happy and favored country.
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The unhappy war which now desolates Europe will oblige me to defer seeing France till a peace.
7
Her face is quite colorless, but she can not altogether hide from him the sadness that still desolates her eyes.
8
That the putrefied weeds have poisoned the air, and the poisoned air causes the yellow fever, that desolates these beautiful countries.
9
Sometimes she shakes his dwelling, sometimes she annihilates his harvests, sometimes she inundates his fields, sometimes she desolates them by a burning drought.
10
A monster which periodically crushes the energies, desolates the homes, swallows thousands of the young lives, and sweeps away millions of the money of mankind.
11
I hold out my hand to him when he is drowning, I welcome him like a brother, and in return, he desolates my hearth!...
12
"I leave you to imagine," said Morley, pathetically, "how it desolates me to forego the pleasure.
13
"It desolates me to hear of her extremity," the captain answered, with a fine irony, "but I am here to do my duty.
14
Until the men stand trial for their action we will remain desolate.
15
Pauline had put the empty room in order-interrible and desolate order.
16
The younger members of the family were desolate when they heard this.
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Frequent collocations
Translations for desolates
Desolates through the time