Desolate Define

To be bare, scorched, radioactive, burnt, or uninhabitable. Usually a noman's land or dangerous plain object.

Dictionary entry details

• DESOLATE(adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing no shelter or sustenance

Synonyms:

bare; barren; bleak; desolate; stark

Context example:

a stark landscape

Similar:

inhospitable (unfavorable to life or growth)

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Meaning:

Crushed by grief

Context example:

a low desolate wail

Similar:

disconsolate; inconsolable; unconsolable (sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled)

• DESOLATE(verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

abandon; desert; desolate; forsake

Context example:

The mother deserted her children

Hypernyms (to 'desolate' is one way to..):

leave (go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to 'desolate'):

expose (abandon by leaving out in the open air)

walk out (leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval)

ditch (forsake)

maroon; strand (leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

desolation (sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reduce in population

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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

depopulate; desolate

Context example:

The epidemic depopulated the countryside

Hypernyms (to 'desolate' is one way to..):

reduce; shrink (reduce in size; reduce physically)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

desolation (an event that results in total destruction)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

desolate; devastate; lay waste to; ravage; scourge; waste

Context example:

The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

Hypernyms (to 'desolate' is one way to..):

destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to 'desolate'):

ruin (reduce to ruins)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

desolation (an event that results in total destruction)

desolation (a bleak and desolate atmosphere)

desolation (the state of being decayed or destroyed)