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81altar — In the OT, a place of sacrifice near which animals were slaughtered and on which oblations of corn, wine, and incense were burnt and offered, in the open air. The ‘high places’ (cf. e.g. 2 Kgs. 23:5) were shrines with a natural kind of altar.… …
82tragic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dramatic, melodramatic; dire, disastrous. See drama. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. catastrophic, fateful, fatal, calamitous, disastrous, dire, ill fated, pitiful, terrible, dreadful, awe inspiring,… …
83devastating — (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Causing devastation] Syn. calamitous, disastrous, desoLating, mortifying; see destructive 2 , overwhelming 1 . 2. [Trenchant] Syn. incisive, biting, caustic, crushing; see ironic 1 , sarcastic , trenchant 2 …
84disastrous — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. calamitous, ruinous, unfortunate; see destructive 2 , harmful , unfavorable 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. catastrophic, calamitous, unfortunate, tragic, cataclysmic, ruinous, dire, devastating, desolating,… …
85overwhelming — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of destroying] Syn. conquering, subjugating, defeating, subduing, overpowering, overthrowing, crushing, routing, ruining, smashing, wiping out, extinguishing, invading, occupying, ravaging, devastating,… …
86desolate — (adj.) mid 14c., without companions, also uninhabited, from L. desolatus, pp. of desolare leave alone, desert, from de completely (see DE (Cf. de )) + solare make lonely, from solus alone (see SOLE (Cf …
87bleak — a. 1. Unsheltered, exposed, bare, unprotected, wind swept, storm beaten. 2. Cold, chill, chilly, raw, biting, piercing, desolating. 3. Desolate, drear, dreary, ungenial, cheerless, comfortless …
88bad — adj 1. virtueless, unrighteous, godless, impious, ungodly; immoral, amoral, nonmoral, unmoral, unprincipled, reprobate; corrupt, depraved, perverted, profligate, dissolute, libertine, abandoned, licentious; unscrupulous, dishonest, crooked,… …
89calamitous — adj 1. catastrophic, cataclysmic, cataclysmal, tragic, disastrous, ruinous; destructive, destroying, devastating, withering, demolishing, ravaging, desolating. 2. fatal, dire, black, ill starred, ill fated, star crossed; inauspicious,… …
90devastating — adj 1. destructive, desolating, ruinous, ravaging; plundering, vandalizing, pillaging; extirpative, annihilative, annihilatory. 2. harmful, deleterious, pernicious, baleful, menacing, malign; wasting, enervating, weakening, debilitating; deadly,… …
