Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - desolate
Desolate
desolate
adj. & v. --adj. 1 left alone; solitary. 2 (of a building or place) uninhabited, ruined, neglected, barren, dreary, empty (a desolate moor). 3 forlorn; wretched; miserable (was left desolate and weeping). --v.tr. 1 depopulate or devastate; lay waste to. 2 (esp. as desolated adj.) make wretched or forlorn (desolated by grief; inconsolable and desolated). Derivatives desolately adv. desolateness n. desolator n. Etymology: ME f. L desolatus past part. of desolare (as DE-, solare f. solus alone)
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English desolat, from Latin desolatus, past participle of desolare to abandon, from de+ solus alone Date: 14th century devoid of inhabitants and visitors ; deserted, joyless, disconsolate, and sorrowful through or as if through separation from a loved one , 3. showing the effects of abandonment and neglect ; dilapidated , barren, lifeless , devoid of warmth, comfort, or hope ; gloomy , see: alone ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. transitive verb (-lated; -lating) Date: 14th century to make ~:, to deprive of inhabitants, to lay waste, forsake, to make wretched, ~r or desolator noun desolatingly adverb ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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