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Adjective desolated has 1 sense
- blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted - made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
Antonym: preserved (indirect, via destroyed)
Verb desolate has 3 senses
- abandon, forsake, desolate, desert - leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
--1 is one way to leave
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- depopulate, desolate - reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
--2 is one way to shrink, reduce
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
--3 is one way to destroy, ruin
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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