Meanings of desolate (desolates) in английском

You have no idea of the ennui that desolates the hemispheres.

The shock of the contest upturns Society and desolates the Land.

He desolates the whole Mohammedan kingdom-andstill he is not sated.

The grain Aphis, in certain years, desolates our wheat fields.

To secure this, we must stop the war that now desolates our once happy and favored country.

The unhappy war which now desolates Europe will oblige me to defer seeing France till a peace.

Her face is quite colorless, but she can not altogether hide from him the sadness that still desolates her eyes.

That the putrefied weeds have poisoned the air, and the poisoned air causes the yellow fever, that desolates these beautiful countries.

Sometimes she shakes his dwelling, sometimes she annihilates his harvests, sometimes she inundates his fields, sometimes she desolates them by a burning drought.

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.

I hold out my hand to him when he is drowning, I welcome him like a brother, and in return, he desolates my hearth!...

"I leave you to imagine," said Morley, pathetically, "how it desolates me to forego the pleasure.

"It desolates me to hear of her extremity," the captain answered, with a fine irony, "but I am here to do my duty.

Until the men stand trial for their action we will remain desolate.

Pauline had put the empty room in order-interrible and desolate order.

The younger members of the family were desolate when they heard this.