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Meanings of desolate (desolates) in English
To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
Synonyms
Examples for "waste"
Examples for "waste"
1
In Europe alone we waste 90 million tonnes of food a year.
2
More funding is being proposed to tackle New Zealand's growing waste problem.
3
Examples of action that can be taken include: -Household food waste.
4
Earlier this year China decided to stop taking any more foreign waste.
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The economic crisis is rooted in decades of state corruption and waste.
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Credit Card Interest Credit cards are a scourge on the family budget.
2
And the Year 2000 problem is proving to be an unavoidable scourge.
3
Let no one underplay the scourge of Islamophobic, racist, extreme right terrorism.
4
The president and I also discussed the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.
5
The scourge of typhus in Serbia is a recent and graphic illustration.
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Last year, auto supporters said an industry collapse would devastate the economy.
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Even today, however, a Washington-Moscow confrontation could devastate the entire northern hemisphere.
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They also said setting import tariffs at zero would devastate Britain's farmers.
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They are fearful any extension to restrictions could devastate the region's economy.
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Collectively it creates a drop in demand, which can devastate economic growth.
1
Nate didn't ravage her as she'd half expected, given their combined hunger.
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The French will hound on the Indians to ravage more and more.
3
Coronavirus continues to ravage the cultural calendar for the next few months.
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She can ravage her way through them, feasting off everything she finds.
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Having committed this wasteful ravage, he marched in triumph out of Isabella.
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To lay waste to any threat despite the environment it was faced with.
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Jump in, lay waste to your foes, and jump out before reinforcements arrive.
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It was an evil large enough to lay waste to an entire world.
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Think you can get enough ships to Sichult to lay waste to my estate?
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That I could lay waste to any enemy, or dismiss them with a look.
Usage of desolates in English
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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.
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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!...
12
"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.
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Translations for desolates
Desolates through the time