Desolated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Desolate \Des"o*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Desolated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Desolating}.]
     1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of
        inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the
        flood.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a
        city.
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              Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war.
                                                    --Sparks.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  desolated \desolated\ adj.
     reduced to a barren and lifeless state.
  
     Syn: blasted, desolate, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  desolated
       adj : made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
             "a wasted landscape" [syn: {blasted}, {desolate}, {devastated},
              {ravaged}, {ruined}, {wasted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "desolated":
     ausgespielt, bankrupt, blasted, blighted, broken, broken-down,
     brokenhearted, crushed, cut up, destroyed, devastated, done for,
     done in, down-and-out, fallen, finished, gone to pot,
     heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, in ruins, inundated,
     irremediable, kaput, overcome, overthrown, overwhelmed, ravaged,
     ruined, ruinous, spoiled, stricken, undone, wasted, wrecked