noun
- a person or thing that lays waste to or destroys a place, leaving it empty and barren
Usage: formal or literary
Examples
- The invading army was seen as a desolator of the countryside.
- War proved to be the desolator of once-thriving cities.
- The desolator left nothing but ruins in its wake.
- Drought became the desolator of the farmland.
- History remembers him as a desolator of peaceful lands.