Desolate and Ruin

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Desolate verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.

Usage example: totally desolated the city with aerial bombs

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Ruin is a synonym for desolate in destroy topic. In some cases you can use "Ruin" instead a verb "Desolate", when it comes to topics like activity, ravage, despoil, devastate.

Nearby Words: desolation, desolately, desolated

Ruin verb - To bring destruction to (something) through violent action.

Usage example: tornadoes ruined a wide swath of the county

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Desolate is a synonym for ruin in despoil topic. You can use "Desolate" instead a verb "Ruin".

Nearby Words: ruined, ruination, ruinous, ruining, ruinously

desolate country

ruin country

Ruin Value: Discord mentions human ruins like the Colosseum while remarking on the desolate beauty of the post-modern city that Celestia is scavenging through.

Source: Humanity's Wake
In the wake of this came Sankis's rampage mentioned above, which catalyzed a chain of events which eventually reduced the entire fortress into a desolate, smoking, miasma-filled ruin.

Source: Infernal Retaliation
After Mufasa is killed in The Lion King, Scar takes over, and promptly turns the Ghibli Hills savannah into a desolate ruin.

Source: Sketchy Successor

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