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desolate    音标拼音: [d'ɛsələt] [d'ɛzələt] [d'ɛsəl,et]
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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" [synonym: {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" [synonym: {abandon},
{forsake}, {desolate}, {desert}]
2: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the
countryside" [synonym: {depopulate}, {desolate}]
3: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay
waste to the countryside after the invasion" [synonym: {lay waste
to}, {waste}, {devastate}, {desolate}, {ravage}, {scourge}]

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.
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2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a
city.
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Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war.
--Sparks.
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Desolate \Des"o*late\, a. [L. desolatus, p. p. of desolare to
leave alone, forsake; de- solare to make lonely, solus
alone. See {Sole}, a.]
1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted;
uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a
desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
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I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I
will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
inhabitant. --Jer. ix. 11.
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And the silvery marish flowers that throng
The desolate creeks and pools among. --Tennyson.
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2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed;
as, desolate altars.
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3. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
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Have mercy upon, for I am desolate. --Ps. xxv. 16.
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Voice of the poor and desolate. --Keble.
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4. Lost to shame; dissolute. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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5. Destitute of; lacking in. [Obs.]
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I were right now of tales desolate. --Chaucer.

Syn: Desert; uninhabited; lonely; waste.
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200 Moby Thesaurus words for "desolate":
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,
comfortless, condemn, confound, consume, crush, crushed, cut up,
damn, dark, daunt, deal destruction, decimate, deep-troubled,
defenseless, deject, dejected, demolish, depopulate, depredate,
depress, depressed, desecrate, desert, deserted, desole, despoil,
despondent, destitute, destroy, destroyed, devastate, devastated,
devour, disconsolate, discourage, discouraged, dishearten, dismal,
dismay, dispeople, dispirit, dispirited, dissolve, distressed,
down, downcast, downhearted, drained, draw tears, drear, dreary,
dried-up, dry, embitter, empty, engorge, excruciate, exhausted,
fallow, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, fruitless,
funereal, gaunt, gelded, gloomy, gobble, gobble up, godforsaken,
grieve, gut, gut with fire, havoc, heart-stricken, heart-struck,
heartsick, heartsore, helpless, homeless, hopeless, impotent,
incinerate, inconsolable, ineffectual, infecund, infertile,
inundate, isolated, issueless, jejune, joyless, kithless,
lay in ruins, lay waste, leached, lonely, low-spirited, melancholy,
menopausal, miserable, motherless, mournful, murky, neglected,
nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, obliterate,
oppress, outcast, overwhelm, pillage, poor, poverty-stricken,
prostrate, ravage, ravaged, raze, remote, ruin, ruinate, ruined,
sack, sad, sadden, shipwreck, sick, sick at heart, sine prole,
solitary, somber, sorrow, sorrowful, soul-sick, spiritless,
spoliate, sterile, stricken, sucked dry, suicidal, swallow up,
teemless, throw into disorder, torment, torture, unconsolable,
uncouth, uncultivated, unfertile, unfrequented, unfriended,
unfruitful, unhappy, uninhabited, unleash destruction,
unleash the hurricane, unoccupied, unpeople, unplowed,
unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, upheave, vacant,
vandalize, vaporize, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue,
woebegone, woeful, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck, wretched


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  • DESOLATE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    What is the word origin of desolate? The word desolate hasn't strayed far from its Latin roots: its earliest meaning of "deserted" mirrors that of its Latin source dēsōlātus, which comes from the verb dēsōlāre, meaning "to leave all alone, forsake, empty of inhabitants "
  • DESOLATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    A desolate place is empty and not attractive, with no people or nothing pleasant in it: The house stood in a bleak and desolate landscape SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
  • Desolate - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com
    When a location is desolate, there's almost nothing there Think of a rundown cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no running water and no stores or other people anywhere That's a desolate setting
  • DESOLATE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Desolate definition: barren or laid waste; devastated See examples of DESOLATE used in a sentence
  • desolate adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage . . .
    Definition of desolate adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (of a place) empty and without people, making you feel sad or frightened They looked out on a bleak and desolate landscape The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words
  • DESOLATE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    The desolate person is deprived of human consolation, relationships, or presence: desolate and despairing The disconsolate person is aware of the efforts of others to console and comfort, but is unable to be relieved or cheered by them: She remained disconsolate even in the midst of friends
  • desolate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    To abandon or forsake something It is not to be supposed that when Cush left Armenia, he left it desolate, and that a rich and long settled country was abandoned altogether; for it would be an absurd way of founding an universal empire, to desolate one country in order to people another
  • DESOLATE Synonyms: 375 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
    Some common synonyms of desolate are bleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, and gloomy While all these words mean "devoid of cheer or comfort," desolate adds an element of utter remoteness or lack of human contact to any already disheartening aspect
  • Desolate Definition Meaning - YourDictionary
    Desolate definition: Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness
  • What does DESOLATE mean? - Definitions. net
    Desolate adjective Etymology: desolatus, Latin 1 Without inhabitants; uninhabited Let us seek some desolate shade, and there Weep our sad bosoms empty William Shakespeare, Macbeth This hero appears at first in a desolate island, sitting upon the side of the sea William Broome, on Epic Poetry 2 Deprived of inhabitants; laid waste





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