Definition of Desolate

Verb

  • cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
    "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
    - lay waste to
  • reduce in population
    "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
  • leave someone who needs or counts on you
    leave in the lurch
    "The mother deserted her children"

Adjective

  • crushed by grief
    "depressed and desolate of soul"
    "a low desolate wail"
  • providing no shelter or sustenance
    "bare rocky hills"
    "barren lands"
    "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
    "the desolate surface of the moon"
    "a stark landscape"
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Unscramble desolate

341 unscramble word found using the letters desolate.
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