desolation

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Noun

Singular desolation

Plural desolations

1. (uncountable) Desolation is the process by which a place has the life living in it taken away; it becomes depopulated.
2. (uncountable) Desolation is the state of being desolated; ruin, solitariness, destitution, gloominess.
3. (countable) A desolation is a place that was wasted or forsaken.

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