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[ des-uh-ley-shuhn ] / ˌdɛs əˈleɪ ʃən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR desolation ON THESAURUS.COM
nounan act or instance of desolating. the state of being desolated. devastation; ruin. depopulation. dreariness; barrenness. deprivation of companionship; loneliness. sorrow; grief; woe. a desolate place. Origin of desolation1350–1400; Middle English <Late Latin dēsōlātiōn- (stem of dēsōlātiō) abandonment, equivalent to dēsōlāt(us) (see desolate) + -iōn--ion Words nearby desolationdeso, desocialize, Desogen, desogestrel, desolate, desolation, desonide, desorb, desorption, De Soto, desoximetasone Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for desolationIt is the desolation of exiled Tibetans that dominates the tenor here, but it is not the only one. The Real India Revealed|Rafia Zakaria|August 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST As you work through the collection, the scenes become more stagnant, more still, as desolation takes over. David Lynch Goes From Film to Photos with ‘The Factory Photographs’|Nico Hines|January 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST Some people assume that if you can't speak or hear, you live in a cage of silence and desolation. This Is What It Is Like To Be Deaf From Birth|Quora Contributor|December 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST She vividly describes the desolation and frustration of incarceration and puts Knox in every scene. My Prison Time With Amanda|Barbie Latza Nadeau|September 14, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Surrounded as they were with desolation, dangers and misery, they will be remembered for their worth and devotion to duty. The Red Cross in Peace and War|Clara Barton Together they made a mocking and a desolation of her love and her life. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse|John Reed Scott The Venetian plain immediately east of the Piave is a scene of desolation. The Story of the Great War, Volume VIII (of VIII)|various How small, how insignificant they seemed amid this hungry emptiness of desolation. Incredible Adventures|Algernon Blackwood Priscilla had not heard from Travers in ten days, and this added to her sense of desolation. The Place Beyond the Winds|Harriet T. Comstock
British Dictionary definitions for desolation
nounthe act of desolating or the state of being desolated; ruin or devastation solitary misery; wretchedness a desolate region; barren waste Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to desolationsolitude, devastation, loneliness, isolation, bleakness, sorrow, sadness, despair, misery, anguish, waste, wreck, ruin, desert, bareness, solitariness, extinction, dissolution, forlornness, wildness |