desolated

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des·o·late

(dĕs′ə-lĭt, dĕz′-)

adj.

a. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted: "streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate" (Daniel Defoe).

b. Barren; lifeless: the rocky, desolate surface of the moon.

2. Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness. See Synonyms at sad.

tr.v. (-lāt′) des·o·lat·ed, des·o·lat·ing, des·o·lates

1. To rid or deprive of inhabitants.

2. To lay waste; devastate: "Here we have no wars to desolate our fields" (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).

3. To forsake; abandon.

4. To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.

[Middle English desolat, from Latin dēsōlātus, past participle of dēsōlāre, to abandon : dē-, de- + sōlus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.]

des′o·late·ly adv.

des′o·late·ness n.

des′o·lat′er, des′o·la′tor n.

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desolated

(ˈdɛsəˌleɪtɪd)

adj

wretched or forlorndeserted and laid waste

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desolated

[ˈdɛsəleɪtɪd] adj (saddened) → desolato/a; (deserted, house) → abbandonato/a

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The place might have been desolated by a pestilence, so empty and so lifeless did it now appear.

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And through the charred and desolated area--perhaps twenty square miles altogether--that encircled the Martian encamp- ment on Horsell Common, through charred and ruined villages among the green trees, through the blackened and smoking arcades that had been but a day ago pine spinneys, crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the gunners of the Martian approach.

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ByTLyS (CyHAN)- Desolated City, which is known as 'Harabe E[currency]ehir' in Turkish hosts tourists in summer while hosting potatoes in winter.