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desolate

verb

1 desolate

Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.

synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake.

Dutch: verzaken

2 desolate

Reduce in population.

synonym: depopulate.

Dutch: ontvolken

3 desolate

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.

synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste.

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, ... show more

Dutch: verwoesten

adjective

1 desolate

Providing no shelter or sustenance:
— The desolate surface of the moon.

synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark.

Roget 837: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy etc. 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, ... show more

Roget 859: hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir [Fr.], forlorn, desolate; inconsolable etc. (dejected) 837; broken hearted.    unpromising, ... show more

Roget 893: secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; the world forgetting by the world forgot" [Pope]. snug, domestic, stay-at-home.    unsociable; ... show more

Roget 87: one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless.    unaccompanied, unattended; solus [Lat.], single-handed; singular, ... show more

2 desolate

Crushed by grief.


Moby thesaurus: abandoned, acarpous, acheronian, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, alone, anguish, annihilate, arid, bare, barren, black, bleak, break down, bring to ruin, bring to tears, celibate, cheerless, childless ... show more.

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