desolate

Everyday

1. Desolate means empty and bare, with no people or life. tree →
2. Desolate means sad and lonely, feeling that nothing is good. tree →

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 →
• The moor was cold and desolate. tree →
• After her friends left, she felt desolate. tree →

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 →
• 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 →
• 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 →
• Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents. (Writings PSA.69.26, JPS 1917) tree →
• Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein. (Writings JOB.3.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. (Writings LAM.5.18, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths