desolate
/ˈdɛsəleɪt/ verbe C2En français : ravager, désoler
- To deprive of inhabitants.
- To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- To abandon or forsake something.
- To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
He/she/it desolates · Prétérit desolated · Participe passé desolated · Forme en -ing desolating
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
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- He/she/it
- desolates
- Prétérit
- desolated
- Participe passé
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- Forme en -ing
- desolating
Dans la bibliothèque
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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