Or search: bleak, ditch, stark, barren, expose, maroon, ravage, shrink, strand, abandon, forsake, scourge, devastate, depopulate, inhospitable
3 Syllables: SUU
violating
4 Syllables: SUUU
calculating, celebrating, circulating, correlating, decorating, deprecating, devastating, educating, elevating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, estimating, formulating, generating, hesitating, insulating, isolating, meditating, oscillating, penetrating, regulating, separating, simulating, speculating, stimulating, stipulating, undulating, vacillating
4 Syllables: USUU
annihilating
5 Syllables: USUUU
accelerating, accumulating, articulating, assimilating, commemorating, congratulating, degenerating, disseminating, gesticulating, investigating, manipulating, perpetuating, regenerating

Found 44 words across 4 groupings.