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(satellite adjective) pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" |
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Synonyms: forlorn, godforsaken, lorn |
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(satellite adjective) crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail" |
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(verb) reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" |
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Synonyms: depopulate |
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Related Words: reduce, shrink |
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(satellite adjective) made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" |
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Synonyms: blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted |
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(verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" |
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Synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake, lurch |
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Related Words: ditch, leave, maroon, strand, walk out |
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(verb) devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" |
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Synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
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Related Words: destroy, ruin, ruin |
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(satellite adjective) 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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Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
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