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English Dictionary: desolate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for desolate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
desolate adj 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" Synonym(s): bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail" v leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" Synonym(s): abandon, forsake, desolate, desert reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" Synonym(s): depopulate, desolate cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" Synonym(s): lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Desolate \Des"o*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Desolated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desolating}.] 1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood. 2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. --Sparks.