Desolate: alternatives and connections

Disconsolateness.

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Disconsolateness.

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Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate.

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Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate.

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Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.

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Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.

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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach…

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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

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The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.

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The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.

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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

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State of being forlorn.

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State of being forlorn.

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To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

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Without color; pale; pallid.

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To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.

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That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

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To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

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Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages…

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A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.

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Stiff; rigid.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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