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1
a state or spell of low spirits
- his desolation after his twin brother died was incurable
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- blue devils,
- blues,
- dejection,
- depression,
- despond,
- despondence,
- despondency,
- disconsolateness,
- dispiritedness,
- doldrums,
- dolefulness,
- downheartedness,
- dreariness,
- dumps,
- forlornness,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- glumness,
- heartsickness,
- joylessness,
- melancholy,
- miserableness,
- mopes,
- mournfulness,
- oppression,
- sadness,
- sorrowfulness,
- unhappiness
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2
land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops
- looked out over the vast untamed desolation to the north
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3
the state of being unattended to or not cared for
- the desolation of the abandoned garden
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4
the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless
- the nuclear attack resulted in a scene of utter desolation
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