desolating

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Causing anguish and despair.
2. adjective Destructive; ruinous.
3. verb present participle and gerund of desolate

Similar words

forsaken forlorn lorn wasted godforsaken inconsolable disconsolate bleak devastate inhospitable

Often followed by

the war wars and sacrilege effects judgments hand pestilence