desolation

[Des`o*la·tion]

Desolation is emptiness and hopelessness. It can describe a poor, dirty, treeless town or a broken heart.

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The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.

Noun
an event that results in total destruction

Noun
sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

Noun
a bleak and desolate atmosphere

Noun
the state of being decayed or destroyed


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.


Desolation

Des`o*la"tion , n. [F. d'82solation, L. desolatio.] 1. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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.
3. A place or country wasted and forsaken.
How is Babylon become a desolation!
Syn. -- Waste; ruin; destruction; havoc; devastation; ravage; sadness; destitution; melancholy; gloom; gloominess.

The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.

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I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

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