desolate
/ˈdɛs.ə.lət/ adjective C1- Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. · a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
- Barren and lifeless.
- Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc. · desolate altars
- Dismal or dreary.
- Sad, forlorn and hopeless. · He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
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I saw your vessel, and fearful of being left to perish on the desolate island, I swam off on a piece of wreckage to try and intercept your course.
Between and around these scattered points extends the desolate, lifeless moor.
Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.
“Now I understand,” he said, “why you had me brought here to this desolate spot, in the midst of the ocean, to this subterranean palace; it was because you loved me, was it not, count?
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