DESOLATING

Meaning of DESOLATING in English

[adjective]Caring for a dying relative is a desolating business.

Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012

DESOLATING — adjective : that desolates: a. : saddening a desolating letter b. : dejecting, dispiriting , depressing the most desolating spectacle …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DESOLATING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desolate
Английский словарь Webster
DESOLATING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Desolate
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
DESOLATING — p.pr. & ·vb.n. of desolate.
Webster English vocab
DESOLATING — Synonyms and related words : agonizing, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, destroying, destructive, devastating, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
DESOLATION — noun Date: 14th century the action of desolating, 2. grief , sadness, loneliness, devastation, ruin , barren wasteland
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
DESOLATINGLY — adverb see desolating
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DESERT — I. des·ert ˈdezə(r)]t, usu ]d.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin desertum, from …
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EXCULPATE — ˈek(ˌ)skəlˌpāt, ekˈs-, ikˈs-, usu -ād.+V transitive verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Medieval Latin exculpatus, past participle of exculpare, from Latin …
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DESOLATION — ˌdesəˈlāshən also -ezə- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Late Latin desolation-, desolatio, from desolatus + Latin -ion-, -io -ion 1. …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DESOLATION — (n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Английский словарь Webster
DESOLATION — ( n. ) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
DESOLATION — /des'euh lay"sheuhn/ , n. 1. an act or instance of desolating. 2. the state of being desolated. 3. devastation; ruin. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DESOLATE — — desolately , adv. — desolateness , n. — desolater, desolator , n. adj. /des"euh lit/ ; v. /des"euh layt'/ …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DESOLATION — noun Date: 14th century 1. : the action of desolating 2. a. : grief , sadness b. : loneliness 3. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DESOLATION — noun a place or country wasted and forsaken. 2. desolation ·noun the act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of …
Webster English vocab
DESOLATION — [des.o.la.tion] n (14c) 1: the action of desolating 2. a: grief, sadness b: loneliness 3: devastation, ruin 4: barren wasteland
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LEOPOLD, JAN HENDRIK — born May 11, 1865, 's Hertogenbosch, Neth. died June 21, 1925, Rotterdam poet whose unique expression and masterly technique set …
Britannica English vocabulary
DESOLATION — n. 1 a the act of desolating. b the process of being desolated. 2 loneliness, grief, or wretchedness, esp. caused …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
DESOLATION — n. 1 a the act of desolating. b the process of being desolated. 2 loneliness, grief, or wretchedness, esp. caused …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DESOLATION — n.1 a the act of desolating. b the process of being desolated. 2 loneliness, grief, or wretchedness, esp. caused by …
Oxford English vocab
WITHERING — Synonyms and related words : Sanforizing, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, air-drying, anhydration, arrogant, atrophy, attenuation, …
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WASTING — Synonyms and related words : Sanforizing, abscess, aging, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation, backache, baneful, …
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WASTEFUL — Synonyms and related words : baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, …
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TORTUROUS — Synonyms and related words : acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressing, excruciating, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, …
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TORMENTING — Synonyms and related words : acute, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, annoying, atrocious, biting, bothering, bothersome, chafing, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, disquieting, …
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SUICIDAL — Synonyms and related words : baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bowed-down, calamitous, cast down, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, cruel, crushed, …
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SUBVERSIVE — Synonyms and related words : Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, …
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SUBVERSIONARY — Synonyms and related words : baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, …
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SELF-DESTRUCTIVE — Synonyms and related words : baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, cruel, cutthroat, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, …
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RUINOUS — Synonyms and related words : ablative, annihilative, ausgespielt, baleful, baneful, bankrupt, battered, beat-up, beaten up, bedraggled, biodegradable, black, blasted, blighted, …
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