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desolare
Latin · ancient
"to leave utterly alone"
to leave utterly alone, from de- (thoroughly) and solus (alone)
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desolate
English · 1300s
"left empty and abandoned, or feeling forlorn"
settled as the English word for a place left empty and abandoned
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