desolate
desolado
definition
verb
the droughts that desolated the dry plains
make (a place) bleakly and depressingly empty or bare.
adjective
a desolate moor
(of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.
translation of 'desolate'
verb
desolar,
assolar,
devastar,
despovoar
adjective
triste,
desabitado,
solitário,
aflito,
deserto,
desolado
example
It's strange that someone who was born in London could feel at home in such a 'desolate' place, but I like it.
I have never seen a more disconsolate and 'desolate' group than the National Party after that speech.
Fortunately on this day the place is 'desolate' , devoid of any human sign.
Finally, they stopped, seeing the sun almost touching the horizon as they now stood in a 'desolate' area, a barren wasteland.
Those poems are all the more welcome after walking through more 'desolate' places.
It doesn't leave you feeling 'desolate' and destitute - it does give you hope.
She was now staring at a bleak and 'desolate' landscape with nothing in the horizon but impassable mountains and valleys.
My fellow writers if my words have left you feeling a trifle depressed and 'desolate' , cheer up.
There was no need for guards at the wall because there was no way out and it was a 'desolate' place outside.
It made me realise how utterly 'desolate' I had felt over the last few weeks.
Eventually, Jasmine's more volatile emotions faded away of their own accord to be replaced by a feeling of 'desolate' loneliness.
Throughout December, the garden can be a 'desolate' place, void of any horticultural flickering of life.
But they are not being forced to stay in this 'desolate' place against their will.
I hold true to my belief that there is beauty in even the most 'desolate' places.
Bereavement is feeling grief, feeling 'desolate' , or feeling deprived after the loss of a loved one.
Lyall stood in the middle of the yard, 'desolate' and bereft, not sure what to do or think.
A community has sprung from this 'desolate' place.
The world sees the desert as a 'desolate' land offering only hardship and discomfort.
Maybe I'm just finely tuned, but right now, he just looks so forlorn, so 'desolate' , that I don't know which way to turn.
Erik told them that such a meal if eaten regularly could sustain them across even the most arid and 'desolate' lands.
The stars were twinkling in the night sky and a full moon gazed down on this 'desolate' place waiting to become another new neighborhood.
But the Arctic challenge will be his biggest test, not only pulling his sled in the most 'desolate' place in the world but without experienced guides to assist him along the way.
I did not ask him whether he was happy or unhappy - I know he is pretty 'desolate' most of time.
We can't begin to imagine how the geologists survived so long in this wild and 'desolate' place.
From what they could see it was a 'desolate' place, huge walls of reddish rock on all sides of them, with trees growing thickly on top of the cliffs.
Nevertheless, although Herbert becomes 'desolate' , he never despairs.
He missed his last session because of family commitments, this left me feeling 'desolate' and undermined.
The smoke she'd seen, it came from here, this 'desolate' place.
There lay the great, rolling mattress of the Moor, a vast and 'desolate' place protected on all its sides by uprearing mountains.
It was a barren, 'desolate' place, but I could see a city in the distance.
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