About The Word Desolation
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Desolation
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What's The Definition Of Desolation?
[n] an event that results in total destruction
[n] sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned [n] a bleak and desolate atmosphere [n] the state of being decayed or destroyed Synonyms | Synonyms for Desolation: bleakness | devastation | devastation | forlornness | loneliness Related Terms | Find terms related to Desolation: abandonment | aching heart | agonizingness | agony | agony of mind | anguish | Arabia Deserta | bale | barren | barren land | barrenness | barrens | bitterness | bleeding heart | bloodbath | blue ruin | breakup | broken heart | brush | bush | carnage | chaos | comfortlessness | consumption | crushing | damnation | Death Valley | decimation | defenselessness | depopulation | depredation | depression | depth of misery | desert | desertion | desolateness | despair | despoilment | despoliation | destruction | devastation | disconsolateness | disconsolation | disintegration | disorganization | dispeoplement | disruption | dissolution | distress | dolor | dreariness | dust bowl | excruciatingness | excruciation | extirpation | extremity | fatherlessness | forlornness | gloom | grief | havoc | heartache | heartbreak | heartsickness | heath | heavy heart | hecatomb | helplessness | holocaust | homelessness | howling wilderness | inconsolability | infelicity | karroo | kithlessness | lunar landscape | lunar waste | melancholia | melancholy | misery | motherlessness | obliteration | prostration | ravage | ravagement | ruin | ruination | sack | sadness | Sahara | salt flat | shambles | slaughter | sorrow | spoliation | suicidal despair | torment | tormentingness | torture | torturousness | undoing | unhappiness | vandalism | waste | wasteland | weary waste | wild | wilderness | wilds | woe | wrack | wrack and ruin | wreck | wretchedness See Also | blight | deterioration | gloom | gloominess | glumness | impairment | ruin | ruin | ruination | ruination | sadness | unhappiness Desolation In Webster's Dictionary \Des`o*la"tion\, n. [F. d['e]solation, L. desolatio.]
1. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of
inhabitants; depopulation.
Unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
--Dan. ix. 26.
2. The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin;
solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . .
And his whole kingdom into desolation. --Shak.
3. A place or country wasted and forsaken.
How is Babylon become a desolation! --Jer. l. 23.
Syn: Waste; ruin; destruction; havoc; devastation; ravage;
sadness; destitution; melancholy; gloom; gloominess.
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