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desolate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | depopulate |
| Type of | shrink, reduce |
| Derivation | desolation |
| Type | Words |
|---|
depressed and desolate of soul.
a low desolate wail.
Examples of desolate
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Sirte is now a desolate place, with small communities scattered across the city.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Debra Granik directed this bleak, desolate picture of a community scratching by.
From the cnn.com
Then, these desolate, salt-soaked shores were loved or visited by almost nobody.
From the nytimes.com
Across a desolate landscape bleached by the sun, I drove my Nissan to the levee.
From the independent.co.uk
Are we now a desolate husk of a country, sucked dry by Eduardo Saverin's rapine?
From the economist.com
Has this winter been a little colder, a little lonelier, a little more desolate?
From the usatoday.com
His mother had died and he was left alone in the most desolate place imaginable.
From the guardian.co.uk
Wild game and most prey birds are long gone from this parched and desolate land.
From the guardian.co.uk
It all looked dreary and desolate, and I could not think what I should do there.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Abandon: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
- Bare: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
- Crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
- Depopulate: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
- Lay waste to: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- (desolately) in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects
- (desolation) devastation: the state of being decayed or destroyed
- (desolation) bleakness: a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape"
- (desolation) forlornness: sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
