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Desolate vs Forwaste - What's the difference?

desolate | forwaste |

As verbs the difference between desolate and forwaste

is that desolate is to deprive of inhabitants while forwaste is (obsolete) to waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.

As an adjective desolate

is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

desolate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
    • a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house
  • * Bible, Jer. ix. 11
    • I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.
  • * Tennyson
    • And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
  • Barren and lifeless.
  • Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
    • desolate altars
  • Dismal or dreary.
  • Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
    • He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
  • * Keble
    • voice of the poor and desolate

    Verb

    (desolat)
  • To deprive of inhabitants.
  • To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
  • To abandon or forsake something.
  • To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

    • Related terms

    * desolation

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    forwaste

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (forwast)
  • (obsolete) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
  • (obsolete) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.