desolate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

   “a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house”

2. sıfat Barren and lifeless.
3. sıfat Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.

   “desolate altars”

4. sıfat Dismal or dreary.
5. sıfat Sad, forlorn and hopeless.

   “He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.”

6. fiil To deprive of inhabitants.

   “O Righteous Themis, if the Pow’rs above By Pray’rs are bent to pity, and to love; If humane Miseries can move their Mind; If yet they can forgive, and yet be kind; Tell how we may restore, by second birth, Mankind, and people desolated Earth.”

7. fiil To devastate or lay waste somewhere.

   “Then Moath pointed where a cloud Of Locusts, from the desolated fields Of Syria, wing’d their way.”

8. fiil To abandon or forsake something.

   “It is not to be supposed that when Cush left Armenia, he left it desolate, and that a rich and long settled country was abandoned altogether; for it would be an absurd way of founding an universal empire, to desolate one country in order to people another.”

9. fiil To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

   “It is not altogether uncommon to hear a reader whose heart has been desolated by the poignancy of a narrative complain that the writer is unemotional.”