Desolate

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted.
  • adjective. Barren; lifeless.
  • adjective. Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness. synonym: sad.
  • transitive verb. To rid or deprive of inhabitants.
  • transitive verb. To lay waste; devastate.
  • transitive verb. To forsake; abandon.
  • transitive verb. To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To render lonely, as a place or region, by depopulation or devastation; make desert; lay waste; ruin; ravage.
  • To overwhelm with grief; afflict; make very sorry or weary: as, his heart was desolated by his loss; your misfortune desolates me; to be desolated by ennui.
  • Solitary; lonely; without companionship; forsaken.
  • Overwhelmed with grief; deprived of comfort; afflicted.
  • Destitute; lacking.
  • Destitute of inhabitants; uninhabited; lonely; abandoned: as, a desolate wilderness; desolate altars; desolate towers.
  • Lost to shame; abandoned; dissolute.
  • Synonyms Companionless.
  • Forlorn, cheerless, miserable, wretched.
  • Abandoned, unfrequented, lonely, waste, wild, barren, dreary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants.
  • transitive verb. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage.
  • adjective. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy
  • adjective. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed.
  • adjective. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
  • adjective. Lost to shame; dissolute.
  • adjective. Destitute of; lacking in.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
  • adjective. Barren and lifeless.
  • adjective. Made unfit for habitation or use.
  • adjective. Dismal or dreary.
  • adjective. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
  • verb. To deprive of inhabitants.
  • verb. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
  • verb. To abandon or forsake something.
  • verb. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  • verb. reduce in population
  • adjective. providing no shelter or sustenance
  • adjective. crushed by grief
  • verb. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • Word Usage
    "'_Yet shall he confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in half a week he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease: and upon a wing of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that which is determined be poured upon the desolate_.'"
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    reduce  shrink  
    Rhyme
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    tesselate  
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    arid  bare  barren  bleak  cheerless  
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