Desolate vs Spent - What's the difference?
desolate | spent |
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.
Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
(spend)
tense
As adjectives the difference between desolate and spent
is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while spent is consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.As verbs the difference between desolate and spent
is that desolate is to deprive of inhabitants while spent is (spend).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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* * * ----spent
English
Adjective
(-)- a spent cartridge
Verb
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* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Adjective
- en spent situasjon - a tense situation
