desolate
de suh luht
- v leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
- v reduce in population
- v cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- s providing no shelter or sustenance
the desolate surface of the moon - s crushed by grief
depressed and desolate of soul
a low desolate wail
- Puffing as he escorts an American visitor up a few flights at city hall, down the street from the desolate embassy compound, he says, laughing, "I guess I'm better at climbing over .
- It was July 24, 1847 when Pioneer Brigham Young gazed down at the desolate Salt Lake Valley and declared: "This is the place.
- Born outside Paris in 1883, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (never called anything but Coco for "Little Pet") was orphaned at six and raised in the desolate province of Auvergne by two .