desolate

[US]/ˈdesələt/
[UK]/ˈdesələt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. uninhabited, bleak, gloomy, lonely and desolate
vt. devastate, depress, torment

Phrases & Collocations

lonely and desolate

Example Sentences

a desolate Pennine moor.

The city was burnt to a desolate waste.

The town has a desolate visage.

I suddenly felt desolate and bereft.

a desolate, scorched landscape.

The house was desolate, ready to be torn down.

the rocky, desolate surface of the moon.

the droughts that desolated the dry plains.

The invading army desolated the country.

She was desolated by his death.

War has desolated that city.

Her death desolated him.

the desolate cities of war-torn Europe.

he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends.

He has been desolate since his wife died.

e si dirà: Questa terra ch’era desolata, è divenuta come il giardino d’Eden;e queste città ch’erano deserte, desolate, ruinate, sono fortificate e abitate.

Real-world Examples

In your desolate dwelling comes the vagrant spring breeze.

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728. Dust accumulated on the insulated simulator in the desolate lab.

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Now, smoke still rose up from the warm ground over the desolate hills.

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You walk alone down a desolate street.

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A few desolate houses stood in the former mining town.

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The Antarctic regions are far more desolate than the Arctic.

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After the fire, the neighborhood burned to a desolate waste.

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Young and still volcanically active, it's a desolate place.

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And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

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I was very desolate when my mother died last year.

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