Desolate is valid Scrabble Word

Is desolate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is desolate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for DESOLATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to lay waste
make (a place) appear bleakly empty
make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy
To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
reduce in population
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
deprive of inhabitants

ADJECTIVE:

lonely, waste

(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness
feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness
uninhabited and bleak
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
Lost to shame; dissolute.
Destitute of; lacking in.
providing no shelter or sustenance
crushed by grief

Words related to DESOLATE

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Words that contain DESOLATE

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How to use DESOLATE in a sentence

For the desolate hath many more children, than she which hath an husband.
He sat by his desolate hearth and began to think with terror of the eternal solitude of that hearth.
To the north, the mountains were gray, desolate, and awful.
Bleak and desolate does this country sometimes look in winter, though when the sun shines it is fair enough.
But when the Moon looked down and saw their sufferings she was filled with pity and thought how desolate the earth would be without a living being on it.
Still following the elevated way she reached Cross-in-Hand, where the stone pillar stands desolate and silent, to mark the site of a miracle, or murder, or both.
Flinging herself upon the sofa, she covered her face with her hands and moaned bitterly, weeping for the past, and weeping, too, for the long desolate years that were to come.
This mountain tract is succeeded by a region of extensive plains, separated from each other by low hills, both equally desolate.
The place was desolate with the desolation of autumn.
Unaccustomed to restrain their feelings, Nature lifts up her voice, and tells, in tones which cannot be misunderstood, the blow which has left her desolate.

The road had dwindled to a track across gloomy desert, all the more desolate, somehow, because of the dry asparto grass growing thinly among stones.
I feel myself to be a desolate, solitary being, without any tie to any person, or to any place.
A desolate afternoon, with a low leaden sky threatening snow, and earth like iron with hard black frost.
The moon shone bright and clear over the deserted houses and gardens, and gave them a still wilder and more desolate look.
There was the long quiet moonlit road and the desolate fields all around us.
The sky cleared presently, and the low December sun lit all the world about her, but it left her spirit desolate.
Thomas Lincoln made a rude coffin himself, but there were no ceremonies at that most pathetic funeral when he laid his young wife in her desolate grave in the forest.
Whole counties were made desolate, and the young State, just recovering from its financial misfortunes, received a severe blow to its prosperity.
When he reached this desolate region, he set the stone Griffin upon a ledge of a rock which rose in front of the dismal cave he called his home.
How desolate and grand! The far-away, lonely and terrible places of the earth were the most beautiful and elevating.
It is thirteen years since he left the City of Lilies with his brother Hanani, in order that he might go to Jerusalem, and do his utmost to improve the ruined and desolate city.
There is in us a natural shrinking from being alone and desolate.
So at the end of the first half of a desolate afternoon, a visit to the Embassy suggested itself.
For winter, darkness, sullen flowing waters and desolate crying winds furnished the accompaniment of those earlier meetings.
But Rama, stupefied, stood stock still where he was stricken, and stared, till his eyelids stiffened, at the desolate hut, at the desolate hearth.
That evening the three desolate young creatures put on their new black dresses, and went down a long, rambling, charming country lane.

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