Definition of "desolating" [desolating]

• Present participle of desolate. (verb)

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• "And -- and they -- they are subject to the same kind of desolating feelings that other people have."
• "The inefficiency and lack of foresight in dealing with Italy's well-known earthquake risk was "desolating", Barberi said."
• "One sudden and desolating change had taken place; but a thousand little circumstances might have by degrees worked other alterations, which, although they were done more tranquilly, might not be the less decisive."