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Meanings of desolate in английском
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.
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Examples of action that can be taken include: -Household food waste.
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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.
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The president and I also discussed the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.
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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.
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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.
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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 desolate in английском
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Until the men stand trial for their action we will remain desolate.
2
Pauline had put the empty room in order-interrible and desolate order.
3
The younger members of the family were desolate when they heard this.
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The roads were unfenced, the meadows desolate; the huts were frequently untenanted.
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The fields are desolate and forbidding, far from the villages social framework.
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Now the garden lay deserted, desolate in the mistiness of the moonlight.
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A month, then two, passed in the desolate cabin in the Hollow.
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They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason.
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One small part of him felt vindicated by the aliens' desolate story.
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And the crowd stood desolate and forsaken in the cold, upper afternoon.
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Behind stretch the marshes, and the place is shut in and desolate.
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But around, for miles upon miles, the desolate plain was perfectly dry.
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Photo: Amazon The desolate, empty weeks are finally coming to an end.
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The harbor -small ,low ,anddesolate-was sighted over the gray-blue sea.
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She became desolate when her hands began to show her true age.
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Through the cold of winter in the desolate mountains, he continues to
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Desolate across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common