desolate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
The mother deserted her children
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- desertion derivation
- forsaking derivation
- forlornness derivation
- defector derivation
- ratter derivation
Sense 2 adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
bare rocky hills
Related & opposite
- starkness derivation
- aridity derivation
- barren derivation
- bareness derivation
- inhospitable similar to
Sense 3 verb
reduce in population
The epidemic depopulated the countryside
Types & categories
- shrink hypernym
Related & opposite
- devastation derivation
- depopulation derivation
Sense 4 adjective
crushed by grief
depressed and desolate of soul
Related & opposite
- disconsolate similar to
Sense 5 verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- destruction derivation
- ravaging derivation
- ravage derivation
- devastation derivation
- ruiner derivation
- bane derivation
- bareness derivation
- devastation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | desertion |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | forsaking |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | forlornness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | defector |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ratter |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | leave |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | expose |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | walk out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ditch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | strand |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | starkness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | aridity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | barren |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | bareness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | inhospitable |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | depopulation |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | shrink |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | disconsolate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | destruction |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | ravaging |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | ravage |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | ruiner |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bane |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bareness |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastation |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | ruin |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | ruin |