Desolation
[desə'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [,dɛsə'leʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
(n.) The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
(n.) A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ruin, devastation, ravage, destruction.[2]. Gloom, gloominess, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness, misery.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DESOLATE]
Edited by Aaron
Examples
- I had chosen night time for our journey to London, that the change and desolation of the country might be the less observable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But it will be very dreadful, with this feeling of hunger, faintness, chill, and this sense of desolation--this total prostration of hope. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Where could we turn, and not find a desolation pregnant with the dire lesson of example? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If, at that time, I had been much with her, I should, in the weakness of my desolation, have betrayed this. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But I can never forgive the misery and desolation your madness has occasioned, continued Rowena. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Ruin and desolation! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Gray lizards, those heirs of ruin, of sepulchres and desolation, glided in and out among the rocks or lay still and sunned themselves. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, I am glad you enjoy it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Isaac groaned deeply, and began to wring his hands, and to relapse into his state of desolation and despair. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He was a nomad of the savage school, and he created an empire of desolation from North India to Syria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But when Mr. Bhaer came, Jo neglected her playfellows, and dismay and desolation fell upon their little souls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was a world of ease, simplicity, and beauty; now it is a scene of desolation and misery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A sense of Cain-like desolation made my breast ache. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- How will she bear the shocks and repulses, the humiliations and desolations, which books, and my own reason, tell me are prepared for all flesh? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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