'Desolating' definitions:
Definition of 'Desolating'
From: GCIDE
- Desolate \Des"o*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desolating.]
- 1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. [1913 Webster]
- Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. --Sparks. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'desolating'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agonizing,
- baneful,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- deadly,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastating,
- disastrous,
- doomful,
- excruciating,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fratricidal,
- harrowing,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- internecine,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- racking,
- ravaging,
- rending,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- self-destructive,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering