Desolation: alternatives and connections

To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.

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The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

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Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

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State of being gloomy.

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Moodiness; sullenness.

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The state of being impaired; injury.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.

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Heaviness; firmness.

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Without color; pale; pallid.

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Without color; pale; pallid.

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Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

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Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

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

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

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The state of being bare.

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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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The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.

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The condition of being naked.

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