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Definition: Desolated |
DesolatedAdjective1. Made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "desolated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: DesolatedSynonyms: blasted (adj), desolate (adj), devastated (adj), ravaged (adj), ruined (adj), wasted (adj). (additional references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | There never was a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action than the one which has just desolated such great areas of the globe. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His robberies desolated the country. |
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| "Desolated" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Desolated" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "desolated": blasted desolate desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "desolated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Albanian | i helmuar (affected, dolorous, poisoned). (various references) | ||||
German | verwüstete (devastated, ravaged). (various references) | ||||
Italian | desolato (bare, desolate, desolates, devastates, disconsolate, dreary, gaunt, god forsaken, sick, sorry, stark, waste). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | '果てる (to be desolated, to fall into ruin), 'れ果てる (to be desolated, to fall into ruin). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | あれはてる (to be desolated, to fall into ruin). (various references) | ||||
Manx | traartyssit (butchered, massacred, slaughtered), traartit. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | esolatedday | ||||
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"Desolated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: descolate, Desolato, desolute, reisolated. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: desalted, desolate. | |
-2 letters: deadest, delated, delates, deleads, elodeas, oleates, sedated, solated, staddle, steaded, toddles. | |
-3 letters: addles, aldose, dadoes, delate, delead, deltas, desalt, doated, eddoes, elated, elates, eldest, elodea, lasted, leaded, leased, loaded, oddest, oldest, oleate, osteal, saddle, salted, sealed, seated, sedate, slated, solate, staled, stelae, stoled, teased, teasel, toddle. | |
-4 letters: addle, aedes, aloes, altos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: demodulates. | |
+3 letters: postdeadline, softheadedly. | |
+5 letters: melodramatised, reconsolidated, stadtholderate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 73 6F 6C 61 74 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ... --- .-.. .- - . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e s o l a t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0073 006F 006C 0061 0074 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387185817867867170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Historic 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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