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"text": "a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house",
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"text": "And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.",
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"ref": "1948, Alan Paton, chapter 36, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, page 271:",
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"roman": "obezljudjavam",
"sense": "to deprive of inhabitants",
"word": "обезлюдявам"
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"roman": "opustošavam",
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"word": "опустошавам"
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"sense": "to deprive of inhabitants",
"word": "devastar"
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"sense": "to deprive of inhabitants",
"word": "hærge"
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"word": "lægge øde"
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"word": "autioittaa"
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"sense": "to make sad, forlorn and hopeless",
"word": "désoler"
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