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desolate as in: felt desolate
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I heard a low desolate wail.
desolate = very sad
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She felt desolate when her boyfriend died in a car accident.desolate = very sad and alone
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I was even more desolate than my sister, I thought. (source)desolate = miserable and lonely
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I was up on the fifth floor and I had a view of the playground, which was always of course utterly desolate. (source)desolate = sad and lonely
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A desolate Hally doesn't move. (source)desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
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And no matter, for the sadness was at her center, the desolated center where the self that was no self made its home.† (source)desolated = made feel extremely sad or miserable--often with loneliness
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In complete desolation, I looked at the world above. (source)desolation = miserystandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. (source)desolating = sad or miserable
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I had never seen him look more desolately alone, and for a fleeting second I felt almost sorry for him. (source)desolately = in a manner that is extremely sad or miserable
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There was nothing memorable in its all too typical poverty and desolateness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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It's just a very lonely, helpless feeling at first—a kind of desolate feeling. (source)desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
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The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest ....rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated.† (source)desolated = made feel extremely sad or miserable--often with loneliness
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The flames, the fear, the feeling of utter desolation were too much for him to handle. (source)desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
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Unquestionably, when it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro.† (source)desolating = makes feel extremely sad or miserable--often with loneliness
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desolate as in: a desolate place
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The photos show the desolate surface of the moon.
desolate = empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
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It is in her book of desolate desert photographs.
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And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is. (source)desolate = empty (of life)
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It was quiet and desolate, except for the goat still tied to the tree, bleating for freedom. (source)desolate = empty of life
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He squinted at the desolate landscape and shook his head. (source)desolate = lacking life and that which would support it
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In a region somewhere between the Everlasting Forest and Outer wilderbeastia, remarkable only for its desolation, Wonderlanders who not long before had been law-abiding, family-loving folk slaved away in Redd's most notorious labor camp, Blaxik. (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Near the slope where once cotton stalks had stood, their brown bolls popping with tiny puffs of cotton, the land was charred, desolate, black, still steaming from the night. (source)desolate = empty (of life)
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The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation. (source)desolation = lacking life and that which would support it
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Walking across the desolate wasteland, Stanley thought about his great-grandfather, not the pig stealer but the pig stealer's son, the one who was robbed by Kissin' Kate Barlow. (source)desolate = empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
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Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night. (source)desolation = a place that provides no shelter or sustenance
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How even as Prometheus took up the flame for mankind, he would have known he was walking towards the eagle and that desolate, eternal crag. (source)desolate = miserable, lonely, and providing no comfort
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I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. (source)desolation = emptiness that provides no shelter or sustenance
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The more desolate and isolated a place was, the better Mom and Dad liked it. (source)desolate = empty or miserable
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Desolation hit me with crippling strength.† (source)Desolation = a state of emptiness that provides no shelter or sustenance
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desolate as in: desolated the region
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Fires desolated the region.
desolated = destroyed and emptied it of living things
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The armies fought over the region for years and desolated it in the process.desolated = destroyed
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Gashes the size of football fields would appear at the mountain base, leaving a desolation of broken roots and upturned trees where once there had been a forest. (source)desolation = destroyed place
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The band of egwugwu moved like a furious whirlwind to Enoch's compound and with machete and fire reduced it to a desolate heap. (source)desolate = destroyed
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You offer me empty lands and desolations, yet deny me the castles I require to reward my lords and bannermen.† (source)
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And Faber was out; there in the deep valleys of the country somewhere the five a.m. bus was on its way from one desolation to another. (source)desolation = destroyed placestandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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As for Buck, wearying of the pursuit, he returned to the desolated camp. (source)desolated = destroyed and emptied of people
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Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world. (source)desolate = destroy or make miserable
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It filled me with indescribable terror to think how swiftly that desolating change had come. (source)desolating = destroying or emptying
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—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS seemed to ask nothing better than to weep.† (source)
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But below the tops the grass was dry, and the hills of Ndotsheni were red and bare, and the farmers on the tops had begun to fear that the desolation of them would eat back, year by year, mile by mile, until they too were overtaken. (source)desolation = destruction
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The Martians, I thought, had gone on and left the country desolated, seeking food elsewhere. (source)desolated = destroyed or emptied
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Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth. (source)desolate = destroy (make miserable)
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Secondly, All other Churches of Europe have been brought under desolations; and it may be feared that the like judgments are coming upon us; and who knows but God hath provided this place to be a refuge for many whom he means to save out of the general destruction?† (source)
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