Synonym: barren, dismal, dreary, empty, gloomy, vacant, void. Antonym: cheerful, happy, joyful. Similar words: isolate, isolated, isolation, violate, percolate, chocolate, resolve, solar. Meaning: ['desələt] v. 1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch 2. reduce in population 3. devastate or ravage. adj. 1. providing no shelter or sustenance 2. crushed by grief.
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31. But Demeter is desolate, and so Persephone agrees to spend part of the year above ground, and part below.
32. Curious palm trees dot the scene, and the background is immense and desolate, as in Martin's paintings.
33. In her desolate wanderings she came to Eleusis and sat by the wayside near a well.
34. You'd go through these desolate, wet streets into this basement in King Street, just near the Opera House.
35. The further we moved towards the Rabari camp, the more desolate the terrain became.
36. The seeds of self-doubt germinate easily in such sad soil, and flourish in such desolate climates.
37. But now, alas! your hawthorn bowers All desolate we see!
38. A certain resentment was becoming evident among them,[www.Sentencedict.com] which the sight of the desolate kitchen enhanced.
39. Robert Hardy was there to re-rehearse the discussions they had held on desolate airfields during the war.
40. About 1.30 am we got home to Debenham, it was raining it was cold and completely desolate.
41. The chief effect is to highlight the horror of the desolate and pre-human world of purposeless suffering.
42. The now desolate Central Avenue at that time had the crowded, exuberant vitality of a Reginald Marsh urban nightlife painting.
43. The mere thought of Piers no longer being around made her feel horribly empty and desolate.
44. There are stretches of land scattered throughout the United States that have become so desolate they are the stuff of legends.
45. The Earth is sparsely populated and desolate, with many tower blocks lying decayed and uninhabited.
46. The Elves of Ulthuan maintain fortresses and watchtowers in these desolate lands to warn them against invaders.
47. It was an almost unbelievable sight in this desolate landscape, a long stretch of vivid blue water fringed by green reedbeds.
48. We browsed through a desolate pornographic bookshop wearing a Monday morning hangover, then entered a crowded pub.
49. Feeling oddly bereft and desolate, besieged by Dolly's incessant chatter, Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel.
50. Radin's body was found in a desolate canyon about 65 miles north of Los Angeles.
51. We looked out over a desolate landscape of bare trees and stony fields.
52. One imagines with misgiving the last scene on desolate Eldey.
53. In some of the more desolate regions, half of the active population is out of work.
54. To people who work outside all day this is one of the most desolate sounds known.
55. We sat still in the desolate space for several hours before we surmised that evidently we were free to go.
56. Half-ruined, hardly a building untouched, it's a desolate place.
57. This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?
58. Now Captain McMaster was at this desolate site again.
59. Desolate Pluto is inserted full ensign.
60. Why thou art desolate , can e'er return.
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