desolate(verb) devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
(verb) reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
(verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
(adjective satellite) made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
(adjective satellite) pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"
(adjective satellite) crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
(adjective satellite) 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"
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