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# desolate

adjective (no comparative in use)

«desolate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Desolate means empty and bare, with no people or life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desolate/#m1)
2. Desolate means sad and lonely, feeling that nothing is good. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desolate/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales, a lonely place, or a heart left alone and unhappy.

### Examples

- The desolate house stood at the end of the lane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desolate/#x1)
- The moor was cold and desolate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desolate/#x2)
- After her friends left, she felt desolate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desolate/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

A land left desolate is empty because the people were sent away.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this as the land getting back its sabbath years, which Israel had failed to keep. The land rests while the people are in exile.

### Examples

- As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest; even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. (Torah LEV.26.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/desolate/#x1)
- I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. (Torah EXO.23.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/desolate/#x2)
- Then shall the land be paid her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and repay her sabbaths. (Torah LEV.26.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/desolate/#x3)
- Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents. (Writings PSA.69.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/desolate/#x4)
- Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein. (Writings JOB.3.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/desolate/#x5)
- For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. (Writings LAM.5.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/desolate/#x6)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «desolate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desolate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«desolate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/desolate.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «desolate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/desolate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«desolate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/desolate.html) on Mova free.