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be desolate
verb
To deprive of inhabitants.
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"There would be good reason for people to be desolate and maybe despairing," Blumenthal said.
If I had to describe her pictures in a single word, it would be "desolate".
I wondered if he would still be there when I returned alone, late at night, when the station would be desolate, and started charting another route home.
But, if the glassy new Skidmore Owings & Merrill addition on the 11th Avenue side of John Jay College is any indication, it won't be desolate for long.
The region may not be "desolate", as a Tory peer so memorably misdescribed it, but venues can be a bit quiet on a week night.
So these kids get a double-whammy, asking themselves, 'Do they like me or do they just want to get invited to Gstaad?' " The flip side of parents staking their claim to Silicon Valley gold can be desolate.
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The floor is desolate.
I'm Desolate.
"I was desolate," he says.
Surroundings are desolate.
I was desolate.
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