To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
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You have no idea of the ennui that desolates the hemispheres.
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The shock of the contest upturns Society and desolates the Land.
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He desolates the whole Mohammedan kingdom-andstill he is not sated.
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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.
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Her face is quite colorless, but she can not altogether hide from him the sadness that still desolates her eyes.
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That the putrefied weeds have poisoned the air, and the poisoned air causes the yellow fever, that desolates these beautiful countries.
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Sometimes she shakes his dwelling, sometimes she annihilates his harvests, sometimes she inundates his fields, sometimes she desolates them by a burning drought.
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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.
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I hold out my hand to him when he is drowning, I welcome him like a brother, and in return, he desolates my hearth!...
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"I leave you to imagine," said Morley, pathetically, "how it desolates me to forego the pleasure.
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"It desolates me to hear of her extremity," the captain answered, with a fine irony, "but I am here to do my duty.
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Until the men stand trial for their action we will remain desolate.
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Pauline had put the empty room in order-interrible and desolate order.
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The younger members of the family were desolate when they heard this.