soli-, sol- +

1. Bare, uninhabited, laid waste, and deserted: "We could only see a devastated, treeless, and desolate landscape after the fire."
2. Solitary, joyless, and without hope.
3. Dismal and gloomy; dreary; dismal: "Without a job, he had desolate prospects for the future."
4. To make a place barren or deserted.
5. To make someone feel sad and lonely; having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn.
6. Literally, "to leave alone" to be "without companions"; also, "uninhabited", from Latin desolatus, desolare "to leave alone, to desert"; from de-, "completely" + solare, "to make lonely".

In a desolate manner; solitarily, by oneself; drearily, dismally, cheerlessly.

The state or quality of being desolate; desertedness, dismal barrenness; cheerlessness, dreary misery.

Someone who or that which makes desolate.

In a manner that desolates or saddens.

1. A feeling of loneliness and despair.
2. A condition of devastation or ruin in a place.
3. The act or process of devastating or laying waste to a place.

Having the quality or tendency of desolating.

Characterized by causing desolation; desolative.

In law, an unmarried woman; specifically, a single woman, including those who have been married, but whose marriage has been dissolved by death or divorce, and, for most purposes, those women who are judicially separated from their husbands.

The opposite is feme covert, "a married woman".

In old English law, a married woman, who, by the custom of London, trades on her own account, independently of her husband; so called because, with respect to her trading, she is the same as a feme sole.

The term is also applied to women who have been deserted by their husbands, who do business as femes sole.

1. To separate a person or place from others of the same type.
2. In medicine, to keep someone who is infected away from others to prevent the spread of a contagious disease.
3. In biology, to separate out a chemical or biological material, such as a virus or bacterium, in order to identify and study it.

The process of separating someone or something from others, or the fact of being alone and separated from others.

A government policy based on the belief that national interests are best served by avoiding economic and political alliances with other countries.

One who believes in and practices isolationism.

Causing someone or something to be separated or cut off.