How to pronounce“desolate”in English
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Definitions of “desolate”
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
“a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house”
To deprive of inhabitants.
“If you consider well of the People of the West-Indies, it is very probable, that they are a newer or younger People, than the People of the old World. And it is much more likely, that the destruction that hath heretofore been there, was not by Earthquakes, […] but rather, it was Desolated by a particular Deluge: For Earthquakes are seldom in those Parts.”
To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
“Then Moath pointed where a cloud Of Locusts, from the desolated fields Of Syria, wing’d their way.”
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