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desolate Adjective

— If a place is desolate, it is deserted; nobody lives in that place. The area around the cave is desolate and filled with jagged rocks. — If a place is desolate, it is barren; nothing lives there; it is lifeless. The tundra is a desolate place. — If a place is desolate, it is not fit to use or live in; it is unfit for use. — If something is desolate, it is dismal or dreary. The abandoned house looks very desolate. — If something or someone is desolate, they are sad, forlorn, or hopeless.

desolate Verb

— If you desolate a place, you devastate it; you lay waste to it. The city was desolated during the war. — If you desolate something, you abandon it; you forsake it. — If you desolate a place, you take away any life living there. — If you desolate someone, you make them sad, forlorn, or hopeless.

desolate

— adjective (= bare, barren, bleak, stark) 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 — adjective crushed by grief depressed and desolate of soul a low desolate wail — verb (= depopulate) reduce in population The epidemic depopulated the countryside — verb (= desert) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch The mother deserted her children — verb (= lay waste to, waste) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

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desolate English » English

lonely deserted dreary lonesome forlorn solitary desert uninhabited bleak barren waste devastate depopulate alone abandoned gaunt forsaken wild stark secluded ravage lone lay waste to gloomy empty derelict bare abandon unoccupied scourge sad neglected isolated forsake disconsolate vacant unpopulated uninhabitable savage ruined quiet out of the way mournful lay waste inconsolable heartsick harsh distress dispeople dismal

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Conjugation desolate conjugation

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desolate · verb

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Movie subtitles

One dreams deeply in this desolate castle, but don't let that frighten you.
I am desolate to go.
I don't know how innocent you may be. but you're a woman, you're defenseless, and you're alone. on a desolate moor in the dark, manacled to a murderer. who'd stop at nothing to get you off his hands.
Forsaken, desolate, shunned by every traveller, and why?
I looked upon a desolate shell. with no whisper of the past about its staring walls.
My land is dry and desolate.
I was walking on a desolate moor at night.
It was quite a desolate place, far out on the island.
I'm. I'm lonely in this desolate old palace.
There is no more desolate spot on earth.
I would be desolate to think Mrs. Leiningen was unhappy with my country.
On one of the remote islands of Hawaii we were dumped on a desolate camp and for all practical purposes, disappeared from the face of the earth.
Such a cold, desolate world.
Yes, dear. I'm desolate to go.
It isn't a hospital. It's a desolate island haunted by death.
It would desolate us to have her leave the nest.
When we reach the arduous road we look down to the desolate mountain lake.
The dead rest in peace in that desolate cemetery under the burning sun,.but not the living.
I'm lonely in this desolate old palace.
And perhaps, not only me for all around me in this desolate back area there were soldiers relaxing.
There's something so unnatural, so horrible about the sight of those soldiers, plodding like soulless automatons through a desolate land.
And none more eloquently than this lonely pillar in a desolate pass some 200 miles north of modern Athens.
The English have a great hunger for desolate places.
What they were building or why it was located in a remote, desolate place. no one could say.
Unless you take immediate action to apprehend this fiend, you will be back pounding a beat in the most desolate, deserted, law-forsaken section of town that I can find!
I looked upon a desolate shell with no whisper of the past about its staring walls.
Living such a desolate life, day after day.
I was desolate.
It is pretty desolate country down here.
Desolate, but rich in crystal and minerals.
I lost my way in the most desolate part of the Sologne.
A ruined and desolate family wiped out by economic misfortune.
We'll go into these desolate woods and perform heroic feats there, asaulting and murdering whoever we meet.
I have heard that my brother Don Juan is hiding in these desolate woods, preying on poor hermits.

News and current affairs

What makes this desolate economic landscape even gloomier is the striking inability of European leaders to explain what has happened and is happening to their citizens.
Images of vulnerable, desolate refugee children - likely to be displaced for a decade or more - have become so common that the world seems unable to comprehend what it is seeing.
Thus, while outsiders might view the desolate islands as insignificant, for Koreans, Japan's position on Dokdo is tantamount to a challenge to their country's independence and a denial of its right to exercise sovereignty over its own territory.

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