DESOLATE

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Traducere în limba română

desolate I. adjectiv

1. părăsit, singuratic, dezolat; nelocuit; părăginit, sterp, pustiu; ruinat; trist.

2. părăsit, abandonat; nemângâiat, nenorocit.

desolate II. verb tranzitiv

1. a pustii, a devasta, a despopula, a ruina, a distruge.

2. a nenoroci, a duce la disperare / la deznădejde / la dezolare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

More desolate, more desperate than ever, it seemed from contrast.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The natural love of life gave me some inward motion of joy, and I was ready to entertain a hope that this adventure might, some way or other, help to deliver me from the desolate place and condition I was in.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The whole looked, as the host of the Rochester Arms had said, "quite a desolate spot."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Again she repressed the tears that had begun to flow; and, putting out her trembling hand, and touching Mr. Peggotty, as if there was some healing virtue in him, went away along the desolate road.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I therefore hoped they would not treat me as an enemy, since I meant them no harm, but was a poor Yahoo seeking some desolate place where to pass the remainder of his unfortunate life.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I took them from her with a most desolate sensation; and, glancing at such phrases at the top, as My ever dearest and own Dora, My best beloved angel, My blessed one for ever, and the like, blushed deeply, and inclined my head.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The grave beneath the tree, where both my parents lay—on which I had looked out, when it was my father's only, with such curious feelings of compassion, and by which I had stood, so desolate, when it was opened to receive my pretty mother and her baby—the grave which Peggotty's own faithful care had ever since kept neat, and made a garden of, I walked near, by the hour.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

A'most the moment as she lighted heer, all so desolate, she found (as she believed) a friend; a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle-work as she had been brought up to do, about finding plenty of it fur her, about a lodging fur the night, and making secret inquiration concerning of me and all at home, tomorrow.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath and there's a persistent wail all night along the North Shore.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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