Desolation

Noun

 * 1) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
 * 2) The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
 * 3) A place or country wasted and forsaken.

Adjectives for Desolation
blazing; harsh; lifeless; utmost; dusty; grim; willful; utter; profound; dreadful; whispering; universal; wintry; careless; degraded; rightful; indescribable; chaotic; haunted; blank; unrevenged; fancied; barren; rapid; fresh; burlesque; weird; withered; mighty; icy; rocky; striking; heartsick; singular; immense; rugged; bleak.

Verbs for Desolation
behold—; blast—; bury in—; clothe with—; curse with—; decry—; doom to—; dwell in—; emerge from—; face—; fade into—; fall to—; inhabit—; lift from—; mourn—; repair—; —encroaches; —entombs; —overcomes; —overwhelms; —sets in.

Thesaurus
Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abandonment, aching heart, agonizingness, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, barren, barren land, barrenness, barrens, bitterness, bleeding heart, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, broken heart, brush, bush, carnage, chaos, comfortlessness, consumption, crushing, damnation, decimation, defenselessness, depopulation, depredation, depression, depth of misery, desert, desertion, desolateness, despair, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disconsolateness, disconsolation, disintegration, disorganization, dispeoplement, disruption, dissolution, distress, dolor, dreariness, dust bowl, excruciatingness, excruciation, extirpation, extremity, fatherlessness, forlornness, gloom, grief, havoc, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, heath, heavy heart, hecatomb, helplessness, holocaust, homelessness, howling wilderness, inconsolability, infelicity, karroo, kithlessness, lunar landscape, lunar waste, melancholia, melancholy, misery, motherlessness, obliteration, prostration, ravage, ravagement, ruin, ruination, sack, sadness, salt flat, shambles, slaughter, sorrow, spoliation, suicidal despair, torment, tormentingness, torture, torturousness, undoing, unhappiness, vandalism, waste, wasteland, weary waste, wild, wilderness, wilds, woe, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wretchedness

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