desolate

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desolate englannista suomeksi

''a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house''

(RQ:KJV) a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
(quote-book)
Barren and lifeless.
Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.

''desolate altars''

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

{{RQ:Keble Christian Year
To deprive of inhabitants.
{{quote-book|en|year=1625|author=Francis Bacon|chapter=Of Vicissitude of Things|title=(Francis Bacon)|Essays|location=London|publisher=H. Herringman et al.|year_published=1691|page=204|url=https://archive.org/details/fessaysorcounsel00baco
(quote-book)’s (w)|location=Dublin|publisher=G. Risk et al.|year_published=1727|section=Volume I, Book I, p. 16|url=https://archive.org/details/ovidsmetamorphos01ovid
{{quote-text|en|year=1891|author=Charles Creighton|title=A History of Epidemics in Britain|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42686/42686-h/42686-h.htm|chapter=1|page=23|publisher=Cambridge University Press
(senseid) To devastate or waste somewhere.
(RQ:Southey Thalaba)
{{quote-text|en|year=1905|author=H. G. Wells|title=A Modern Utopia|section=Chapter 2, § 3|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6424/6424-h/6424-h.htm
To abandon or forsake something.
(quote-journal)
To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
{{quote-text|en|year=1914|author=Arnold Bennett|title=The Author’s Craft|location=London|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|section=Part II, p. 44|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12743/12743-h/12743-h.htm
{{quote-text|en|year=1948|author=Alan Paton|title=Cry, the Beloved Country|url=https://archive.org/details/crybelovedcountr00pato_3|chapter=36|page=271|publisher=Scribner|location=New York
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