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adj. - Made uninhabitable.

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Usage examples (39)
  • Adjective : a treeless, desolate landscape. ,a desolate place. ,desolate prospects
  • China tested its nuclear in desolated region in Xinjiang and France did the same in a no man island.
  • Saxons had already made of Canterbury and Anderida, a 'Waste Chester,' that is, a desolated stronghold.
  • As if He had said, A kingdom divided against itself by civil war must be desolated, which is exemplified both in a house and in a city.
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