DESOLATE

• (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

  "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

  synonyms : devastate , lay waste to , ravage , scourge , waste

  The cyclone ravaged the whole city -added by sradha_inlas

• (verb) reduce in population

  "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

  synonyms : depopulate

• (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

  "The mother deserted her children"

  synonyms : abandon , desert , forsake

• (adj.) crushed by grief

  "depressed and desolate of soul", "a low desolate wail"

• (adj.) 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

  The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes provided him no shelter. -added by naila_inlas

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