See Also: Desolate(medicine)
desolate(2)(dictionary)
desolate 1, adjective(dictionary)
desolate 2, verb(dictionary)

desolate(2) (iou)



desolate verb trans. LME.
[Latin desolat- pa. ppl stem of desolare abandon, from de- DE- 1 + solus alone: see -ATE3.]
Deprive of inhabitants, depopulate; devastate, lay waste; make barren; spoil by neglect. LME.
Defoe Would quite desolate the island, and starve them. C. Lyell As if the city had been desolated by the plague.
Leave alone or friendless, forsake; make wretched; overwhelm with misery. M16.
G. B. Shaw Agreeable surprises instead of desolating disappointments.
desolater noun M17.
desolatingly adverb in a manner or to an extent that desolates or saddens L19.
desolative adjective (rare) tending to desolate L16.
desolator noun L18.