Definitions for desolates

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desolates des·o·late

Spelling: [adjective des-uh-lit; verb Desolates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 437 anagrams from letters in desolates (adeelosst).

Definitions for desolates

adjective

1. barren or laid waste; devastated:
2. deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited.
3. solitary; lonely:
4. having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn.
5. dreary; dismal; gloomy:

verb (used with object)

1. to lay waste; devastate.
2. to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate.
3. to make disconsolate.
4. to forsake or abandon.

Origin of desolates

1325-75; Middle English Latin dēsōlātus forsaken, past participle of dēsōlāre, equivalent to dē- de- + sōlāre to make lonely, derivative of sōlus s

Examples for desolates

And how desolate was its abandonment, what a stream of silence and solitude it was!

Here, only the twisting grey concrete under his tires disturbed the desolate wild.

To the cast and north of our hill was an expanse of rolling, desolate wilderness.

Louisa also devotes much of her time to feeding underprivileged children in the desolate Kurland Village in South Africa.

Yet all seemed cheerless; for the heart of Paralus was desolate.

He was ashamed to be there—ashamed to meet the desolate and, as he believed, erring sister.

But Nev had been betrayed by his church, and his heart-broken death left his family poor and desolate.

Do you remember the scene in which the mayor and his cronies take Dmitri to this desolate place and threaten him with a gun?

He was visiting San Francisco and had questions about desolate Angel.

All my plans for my work and my life assumed the most gray and desolate hues.