Desolate vs Demolish - What's the difference?
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Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
* Bible, Jer. ix. 11
* Tennyson
Barren and lifeless.
Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
Dismal or dreary.
Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
* Keble
To deprive of inhabitants.
To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
To abandon or forsake something.
To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
To destroy; to destruct.
(figuratively) To utterly defeat.
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Desolate is a related term of demolish.
As verbs the difference between desolate and demolish
is that desolate is to deprive of inhabitants while demolish is to destroy; to destruct.As an adjective desolate
is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.desolate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house
- I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.
- And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
- desolate altars
- He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
- voice of the poor and desolate
Verb
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English
Verb
(es)- They demolished the old house and put up four townhouses.
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