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desolately
Variant of desolate
adjective
- left alone; lonely; solitary
- uninhabited; deserted
- made uninhabitable; laid waste; in a ruinous state
- forlorn; wretched
transitive verb desolated, desolating
- to make desolate; rid of inhabitants
- to make uninhabitable; lay waste; devastate
- to forsake; abandon
- to make forlorn, wretched, etc.
Related Forms:
- desolately adverb
- desolateness noun
- desolator noun or desolater
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