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adjective
- 1. (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness: "a desolate Pennine moor" Similar Opposite
- 2. feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness: "I suddenly felt desolate and bereft" Similar Opposite
verb
- 1. make (a place) appear bleakly empty: "the droughts that desolated the dry plains" Similar
- 2. make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy: "he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends" Similar Opposite
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3 days ago · verb. reduce in population. “The epidemic depopulated the countryside”. synonyms: desolate. see more. see less. type of: reduce, shrink. reduce in size; reduce physically.
4 days ago · Gobi Desert, great desert and semidesert region of Central Asia that stretches across large parts of Mongolia and China. Much of the Gobi (from Mongolian gobi, meaning ‘waterless place’) is not sandy desert but bare rock. Although vegetation is rare, the Gobi’s fauna is varied and includes camels, kulan, and dzeren.
16 hours ago · Despite decades of dedication to Great Salt Lake, today I sit on a desolate shore and contemplate what this place will be in the absence of water. Without intervention, the effect of climate change will be a catastrophic transformation of the water on our planet; “Entropy” signals a plea for action. Chopin’s Prelude
5 days ago · When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father’s recent death.
1 day ago · 1) The Sahara Adventure. The Sahara Desert, one of the world's most iconic arid landscapes, serves as a dramatic backdrop in several noteworthy documentaries. The film "Fata Morgana" (1971) by Werner Herzog artfully captures footage in and around the Sahara, juxtaposed with a spoken creation myth and Leonard Cohen’s music.
16 hours ago · Oftentimes in the wee hours of the night, young men were found dead in desolate back alleys of then Calcutta, which remained as the epicentre of the movement. “Encounters” killed several hundreds of young activists, and many were recorded as simply “missing” in official records, the total figures of these precarious deaths remain ...
2 days ago · Every day, parents make choices and act in deliberate ways to help shape their children into people with character, respect, a sense of responsibility, motivation, and skills to help them be both successful as kids and as adults. Leading relates to this preparation.
