desolate

Definition of abbreviation (noun) -

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; devastate; ravage; scourge

Part of speech:

Verb

Forms: desolated; desolated; desolating

Example sentences with this word:

The desolate lands of the desert seem to go on for an eternity.

The railway in Glen Spean is the popular West Highland line between Glasgow and Fort William, a triumph of railway engineering through difficult terrain and completed only after incredible hardships and repeated problems in laying the line across the bogs of the desolate Moor of Rannoch.

Driving down the desolate road had Kelvin worried that he wouldn't reach a gas station in time.

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