Meanings (ES + gloss)
abandonado
Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the cl…
There are few sights that leave a railway lover more wistful than a desolate railway viaduct no longer carrying tracks. As with tunnels, so much effort was made to conquer the land…
desamparado
Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
The condition of the besieged, in the mean time, was forlorn in the extreme; not so much from want of food, though their supplies were scanty, as from excessive toil and exposure.
This is the Maiden all forlorn, That milked the Cow with the crumpled Horn[.]
desesperado
Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.
To begin therefore with Traditions, which is your forlorn hope that in the first place we are to set upon: this must I needs tell you before we begin, that you much mistake the mat…
Well! It is a forlorn hope at the best, and not much the forlorner for being delayed till dark.