desolate
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 Similar: inhospitable - pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"
Synonyms: forlorn, godforsaken, lorn Similar: forsaken - crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
Similar: inconsolable, disconsolate, unconsolable
verb
- leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
Synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake - reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
Synonyms: depopulate - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
Synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste
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