desolate
IPA: dˈɛsʌɫʌt
verb
- To deprive of inhabitants.
- To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- To abandon or forsake something.
- To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
adjective
- Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
- Barren and lifeless.
- Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
- Dismal or dreary.
- Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
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Examples of "desolate" in Sentences
- The farm is abandoned and desolate.
- The streets are empty and desolate.
- The house of Siladitya was left desolate.
- The tomb along with the garden is now desolate.
- The tenants fled and the country became desolate.
- The areas close to the housing projects are desolate and bleak.
- The situation of leprosy patients in Iran was more than desolate.
- This name was proposed because of the desolate surface of the object.
- The final confrontation with The Faceless takes place on the desolate prairies.
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