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DESOLATE

Definition:

[verb] leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
Synonyms: abandon, forsake, desert
[verb] reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
Synonyms: depopulate
[verb] devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
Synonyms: lay waste to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge
[adjective] providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark
[adjective] pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"
Synonyms: forlorn, godforsaken, lorn
[adjective] crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
[adjective] made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
Synonyms: blasted, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted