verb
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To deprive of inhabitants.
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To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
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To abandon or forsake something.
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To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
adjective
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Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
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a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
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Barren and lifeless.
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Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
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desolate altars
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Dismal or dreary.
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Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
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He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
Examples of desolate in a Sentence
How very desolate must that one be.
It was a desolate wasteland except for some grazing sheep.
It presents a desolate appearance.
The desolate wilderness is bounded only by the distant Red Sea.
Babylon will be left desolate without a single inhabitant.
It was attacked in 1689, and in 1690 it was utterly destroyed by the French and Indians, and remained desolate until after the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink and hide the future from me.
The indifference of the Jews to the desolate conditions of their sanctuary opens up a problem of some difficulty.
The landscape around them was desolate.
Northern Aetolia remains a desolate region, inhabited mainly by Vlach shepherds.
Egypt and Edom, on the other hand, shall be desolate, because they have shed the blood of Yahweh's innocents.
He then went into exile at Orvieto and Viterbo, and only on the 6th of October 1528 returned to his desolate residence.
Under Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius it appears to have been a flourishing city, the district, now desolate, being then very fertile and covered with forests of olives.
At that conference the work had spread from Ring's Ash in Devon to Morrah, a lonely and desolate parish in west Cornwall.
The forests which once covered the mountains have for the most part disappeared and the slopes are now desolate wastes.
But between the Lake of Zurich and the Walensee the huge desolate alluvial plain grew ever in size, while great damage was done by the river, which overflowed its bed and the dykes built to protect the region near it.
The surface of this tableland is also bare and desolate, being covered with gravel and fragments of rock.
Although in many districts there are low ranges of hills, the surface is more often a desolate and monotonous plain, flat or slightly undulating.
Henceforward, for 290 m., the Rumanian shore is a desolate fen-country, varied only by a few hills, by cities, and by lagoons often 15 m.
West of the Nile there are a few oases-- those of Selima, Zaghawa and El Kab - but this district, part of the Libyan Desert, is even more desolate than the Nubian Desert.
This will make many people feel desolate and depressed at a time they need to see their loved ones daily.
Borth is a very desolate place consisting of a long straggling street of the houses of fishermen.
They inhabit the desolate plateau of Tibet, at elevations of between 13,000 and 18,000 ft., and, like all Tibetan animals, have a firm thick coat, formed in this instance of close woolly hair of a grey fawn-colour.
The effect of his preaching was immense, and large numbers of women, many of them left desolate by the loss of their husbands on crusade, came under the influence of a movement which was attended with all the manifestations of what is now called a "revival."
These highlands, formerly known as the Raigarh Bichhia tract, remained desolate and neglected until 1866, when the district of Balaghat was formed, and the country opened to the industrious and enterprising peasantry of the Wainganga valley.
In the breeding season they resort to the most desolate lands in higher southern latitudes, and indeed have been met with as far to the southward as navigators have penetrated.
The peninsula of Aden consists chiefly of a mass of barren and desolate volcanic rocks, extending five miles from east to west, and three from its northern shore to Ras Sanailah or Cape Aden, its most southerly point; it is connected with the mainland by a neck of flat sandy ground only a few feet high; and its greatest elevation is Jebel Shamshan, 1776 ft.
Rodmar, for the sake of the treasure, was slain by his sons Fafnir and Regin; and Fafnir, seizing the whole, retired to a desolate heath and, in the form of a snake or dragon, brooded over the hoard.
He was punished by him on some desolate hill (usually styled Caucasus) for fire-stealing, and was finally released by Heracles.
This area is very high and desolate, with only a few nomads.
Fourth and Oak were just as desolate as Ninth and Locust, but as soon as Dean stopped the car, a disheveled figure jumped from the darkness and clawed at the passenger door until Dean reached over and opened it.
Timur marched back to Samarkand as he had come, by way of Kabul, and Mahmud Tughlak ventured to return to his desolate capital.
She is personified as a widowed princess, bereaved and desolate, sitting amid the ruins of her former joys, and brooding over her calamities.
Nearly all the oficinas, or working plants, are owned and operated by British companies, and the railways of this desolate region are generally owned by the same companies and form a part of the working plant.
The bleak and desolate heights of the Serra da Estrella and the ranges of the northern frontier are almost alpine in character, although they nowhere reach the limit of perpetual snow.
The general appearance of the surface is arid and desolate, partly because of the volcanic remains, and partly because of the scanty rainfall, which is insufficient to support vegetation other than that of the desert except in the deeper mountain valleys.
On his third voyage, while seeking some land reported to have been found by Kerguelen, Cook in December 1776 reached the cluster of desolate islands now generally known by the name of the French explorer, and here, among many other kinds of birds, was a Sheathbill, which for a long while no one suspected to be otherwise than specifically identical with that of the western Antarctic Ocean; but, as will be seen, its distinctness has been subsequently admitted.
The group of lakes called Fiskiviitn (or Veidivotn), which lie in a desolate region to the west of Vatnajokull, consist for the most part of crater lakes.
The south versant, on the other hand, is barren and desolate below the 10,000 ft.
On many of these desolate rocks, which could have afforded only the barest sustenance, there are remains of the dwellings and churches of early religious settlers who sought solitude here.
Apart from the surroundings of the lough, the neighbouring country is peculiarly desolate.
The chief source of boric acid for commercial purposes is the Maremma of Tuscany, an extensive and desolate tract of country over which jets of vapour and heated gases (soffioni) and springs of boiling water spurt out from chasms and fissures.
They had reached the very wildest and most desolate portion of the pass when the girl gave a startled cry, and pointed upwards.
Unfortunately, not much else of value is found on the planet and the wealthy-or anyone with the funds to do so-leave Pandora to the desolate and vagabonds who are forced to survive by looting and other nefarious means.
Most involve a character that is trapped inside a empty house or a desolate town with little to no means of defending themselves.
Along a desolate stretch of Mississippi highway where a haunted motel once stood, drivers report that on rainy nights they are frightened when they believe they've struck a person crossing the highway.
Gary Jules' version accentuated the desolate side of Mad World beautifully.
In choosing to help those who hold on to the vestiges of civilization, the desolate loner of the original movie rediscovers his lost soul.
Its site is now entirely desolate.
It is a waste, elevated, desolate region that the route traverses, and the road itself is only open at certain seasons of the year.