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Meanings of desolate in English
To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
Usage of desolate in English
1
Until the men stand trial for their action we will remain desolate.
2
Pauline had put the empty room in order-interrible and desolate order.
3
The younger members of the family were desolate when they heard this.
4
The roads were unfenced, the meadows desolate; the huts were frequently untenanted.
5
The fields are desolate and forbidding, far from the villages social framework.
6
Now the garden lay deserted, desolate in the mistiness of the moonlight.
7
A month, then two, passed in the desolate cabin in the Hollow.
8
They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason.
9
One small part of him felt vindicated by the aliens' desolate story.
10
And the crowd stood desolate and forsaken in the cold, upper afternoon.
11
Behind stretch the marshes, and the place is shut in and desolate.
12
But around, for miles upon miles, the desolate plain was perfectly dry.
13
Photo: Amazon The desolate, empty weeks are finally coming to an end.
14
The harbor -small ,low ,anddesolate-was sighted over the gray-blue sea.
15
She became desolate when her hands began to show her true age.
16
Through the cold of winter in the desolate mountains, he continues to
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Desolate across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common