All 13 Uses of
desolate
in
The War of the Worlds
- Save for such, that big area of common was silent and desolate, and the charred bodies lay about on it all night under the stars, and all the next day.
Chpt 1.8 (definition 1)desolate = empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
- And shining with the growing light of the east, three of the metallic giants stood about the pit, their cowls rotating as though they were surveying the desolation they had made.
Chpt 1.11 (definition 2)desolation = destruction or emptiness
- And through the charred and desolated area—perhaps twenty square miles altogether—that encircled the Martian encampment on Horsell Common, through charred and ruined villages among the green trees, through the blackened and smoking arcades that had been but a day ago pine spinneys, crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the gunners of the Martian approach.
Chpt 1.13 (definition 2)desolated = destroyed or emptied
- It was strange to see the place quite tranquil, quite desolate under the hot blue sky, with the smoke and little threads of flame going straight up into the heat of the afternoon.
Chpt 1.13 (definition 1)desolate = empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
- As the water spread the weed followed them, until the ruined villas of the Thames valley were for a time lost in this red swamp, whose margin I explored, and much of the desolation the Martians had caused was concealed.
Chpt 2.6 (definition 2)desolation = destruction or emptiness
- The aspect of the place in the dusk was singularly desolate: blackened trees, blackened, desolate ruins, and down the hill the sheets of the flooded river, red-tinged with the weed.
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)desolate = empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
- The aspect of the place in the dusk was singularly desolate: blackened trees, blackened, desolate ruins, and down the hill the sheets of the flooded river, red-tinged with the weed.
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- It filled me with indescribable terror to think how swiftly that desolating change had come.
Chpt 2.6 (definition 2)desolating = destroying or emptying
- The Martians, I thought, had gone on and left the country desolated, seeking food elsewhere.
Chpt 2.6 (definition 2) *desolated = destroyed or emptied
- The desolating cry worked upon my mind.
Chpt 2.8 (definition 3) *desolating = very sad and lonely
- But while that voice sounded the solitude, the desolation, had been endurable; by virtue of it London had still seemed alive, and the sense of life about me had upheld me.
Chpt 2.8 (definition 3)desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- My home was desolate.
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1) *desolate = empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
- I sit in my study writing by lamplight, and suddenly I see again the healing valley below set with writhing flames, and feel the house behind and about me empty and desolate.
Chpt 2.10 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (desolate as in: a desolate place) empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
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(2) (desolate as in: desolated the region) destroyed; or emptied of people; or emptied of most plants and animals
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(3) (desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely