meaning of desolate

1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
2.
Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
3.
Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
4.
Lost to shame; dissolute.
5.
Destitute of; lacking in.
6.
To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
7.
To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
8.
devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the ">invasion"


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