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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as a fire desolates a city. Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. --Sparks. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: desolated adj : made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" [syn: {blasted}, {desolate}, {devastated}, {ravaged}, {ruined}, {wasted}]
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