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desolate (adjective, verb):
adjective
1: devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted
2: joyless, disconsolate, and sorrowful through or as if through separation from a loved one
3a: showing the effects of abandonment and neglect : dilapidated
b: barren, lifeless
c: devoid of warmth, comfort, or hope : gloomy
verb
: to make desolate:
a: to deprive of inhabitants
b: to lay waste
c: forsake
d: to make wretched
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : The word desolate hasn’t strayed far from its Latin roots: its earliest meaning of “deserted” mirrors that of its Latin source desolatus, which comes from the verb desolare, meaning “to leave all alone, forsake, empty of inhabitants.” That word’s root is solus, meaning “lone, acting without a partner, lonely, deserted,” source too of sole, soliloquy, solitary, solitude, and solo. Desolate also functions as a verb with its most common meanings being “to lay waste” and “to make wretched; to make someone deeply dejected or distressed.”
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