desolating
71tormenting — Synonyms and related words: acute, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, annoying, atrocious, biting, bothering, bothersome, chafing, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating,… …
72torturous — Synonyms and related words: acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressing, excruciating, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening,… …
73wasteful — Synonyms and related words: baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, dissipative, doomful,… …
74wasting — Synonyms and related words: Sanforizing, abscess, aging, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation, backache, baneful, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic …
75withering — Synonyms and related words: Sanforizing, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, air drying, anhydration, arrogant, atrophy, attenuation, baneful, biting, bitter, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,… …
76FERDINAND III — 1) emperor of Germany (1637 57), son of the preceding, born at Grätz; more tolerant in his views, would gladly have brought the war to a close, but found himself compelled to face the Swedes reinforced by the French; in 1648 the desolating… …
77PHOCAS — a common soldier who raised himself by the aid of a faction to the throne of the East, and for twenty years defied attempts to dethrone him, but, being deserted by his party, was taken, subjected to torture, and beheaded in 610. His reign,… …
78Fintray — FINTRAY, a parish, in the district and county of Aberdeen, 2½ miles (E.) from Kintore; containing 1032 inhabitants. This place is said to have derived its name from a Gaelic term signifying the fair bank or boundary of the river. It was… …
79Kilbirnie — KILBIRNIE, a parish, in the district of Cunninghame, county of Ayr, 3 miles (W. by N.) from Beith; containing 2631 inhabitants. This place derives its name from the term Kil, signifying a church, chapel, or monastic cell, and Birnie, or… …
80Abomination of Desolation — Used by AV, REB for ‘the desolating sacrilege’ of NRSV at Mark 13:14 etc …
