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Word: Desolate
Speech Type: Adjective
late Middle English: from Latin desolatus ‘abandoned’, past participle of desolare, from de- ‘thoroughly’ + solus ‘alone’
ˈdɛs(ə)lət
(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness
Short Definition:empty and bleak
Examples:- a desolate Pennine moor
feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness
Short Definition:very unhappy
Examples:- I suddenly felt desolate and bereft
Word: Desolate
Speech Type: Verb
ˈdɛsəleɪt
make (a place) appear bleakly empty
Short Definition:make place appear desolate
Examples:- the droughts that desolated the dry plains
make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy
Short Definition:make someone feel desolate
Examples:- he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends
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