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v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desolate.

"Proclaiming a National Fast Day in 1863, he suggested, in full prophetic voice, that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. . ."

inhospitable    unconsolable    disconsolate    inconsolable   

desolated    desolates    desolating   

shrink    reduce   

depopulate    depress    devastate    alone    lonely   

desolation   

waste    desert    uninhabited    lonely    deserted   

tesselate   

lonely    bleak    barren    forlorn    arid