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Meaning of desolate


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  desolate
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {bare}, {barren}, {bleak}, {desolate},
             {stark}]
      2: crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low
         desolate wail"
      v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the
           lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: {abandon},
           {forsake}, {desolate}, {desert}]
      2: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the
         countryside" [syn: {depopulate}, {desolate}]
      3: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay
         waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: {lay waste
         to}, {waste}, {devastate}, {desolate}, {ravage}, {scourge}]


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