DESOLATE
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Definition
- adjective providing no shelter or sustenance.
— synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark
- adjective crushed by grief.
- verb leave someone who needs or counts on you.
— synonyms: abandon, forsake, desert
- verb reduce in population.
— synonyms: depopulate
- verb cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
— synonyms: lay_waste_to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge
Examples
- “a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house”
- “desolate altars”
- “He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.”
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