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Desolate Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Desolate has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:

Verb · Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

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

"The mother deserted her children"

2

reduce in population

"The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

3

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

4

To deprive of inhabitants.

Adjective
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"

2

crushed by grief

"depressed and desolate of soul"

"a low desolate wail"

3

Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

Example Sentences
"The mother deserted her children" verb
"The epidemic depopulated the countryside" verb
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" verb
"bare rocky hills" adjective
"barren lands" adjective
"the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" adjective
"the desolate surface of the moon" adjective
"a stark landscape" adjective
"depressed and desolate of soul" adjective
"a low desolate wail" adjective
See Also
moonscape stark barren forlorn inhabitant desolately desolating habitation
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
leave shrink destroy
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
expose walk out ditch maroon ruin
Rhyming Words
ate bate late gate kate date wate cate rate nate oate sate tate jate hate mate fate yate agate skate
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