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"Desolate" Definition

adjective

Barren; lifeless: the rocky, desolate surface of the moon.
Bereft of friends or hope; sad and forlorn. See Synonyms at sad.
Devoid of inhabitants; deserted: "streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate” ( Daniel Defoe).
Dreary; dismal.
Rendered unfit for habitation or use: the desolate cities of war-torn Europe.

verb-transitive

To forsake; abandon.
To lay waste; devastate: "Here we have no wars to desolate our fields” ( Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).
To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.
To rid or deprive of inhabitants.

verb

To lay waste.
To make wretched .
To deprive of inhabitants.
to make desolate.

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