Definition of Desolating

1. Verb. (present participle of desolate) ¹

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Definition of Desolating

1. desolate [v] - See also: desolate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desolating

desocialising
desocialization
desocialize
desocialized
desocializes
desocializing
desogestrel
desolate
desolated
desolately
desolateness
desolatenesses
desolater
desolaters
desolates
desolating
desolatingly
desolation
desolations
desolator
desolators
desolatory
desolder
desolvate
desolvated
desolvates
desolvating
desolvation
desolvations
desolventizing

Literary usage of Desolating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"... effects of their wars—The accompaniments of European civilization still more desolating—Obligations of Americans to arrest these destroying influences. ..."

2. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During by John Davis (1803)
"Yellow Fever desolating the City. Em- hark for South-Carolina. U PON my landing at New- York, my first care was to deliver a letter of recommendation which ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"... of desolating and destroying its own fair proportions? Is there any President, any prince, any potentate, that would, ..."

4. Arctic Experiences: Containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on by Euphemia Vale Blake (1874)
"Flocks of Ducks.—Grotesque Misery.—A Statue of Famine.—A desolating Wave. —A Foretaste of worse.—Manning the Boat in a new Fashion. ..."

5. Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty by Alexander Graydon (1811)
"... enthusiastic republicanism on the one hand, and the most desolating and dismaying system of despotism, which the world has yet beheld, on the other. ..."

6. Prophecies of Jesus: Or The Fulfillment of the Predictions of Our Saviour by John Gotlieb Matteson (1895)
"If the word "desolation" is supplied in both places, it reads "the daily desolation and the transgression of desolation," thus presenting two desolating ..."

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