desolate

adj. abandoned, lonesome, neglected; miserable

v. make miserable; abandon, neglect; deprive of inhabitants, depopulate

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Verb
1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
(synonym) abandon, forsake, desert
(hypernym) leave
(hyponym) expose
(derivation) forlornness, loneliness, desolation
2. reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
(synonym) depopulate
(hypernym) shrink, reduce
(derivation) devastation, desolation
3. devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
(synonym) lay waste to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge
(hypernym) destroy, ruin
(hyponym) ruin
(derivation) bleakness, desolation

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Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) bare, barren, bleak, stark
(similar) inhospitable
2. pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"
(synonym) forlorn, godforsaken, lorn
(similar) forsaken
3. crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
(similar) inconsolable, disconsolate, unconsolable
4. made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
(synonym) blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted
(similar) destroyed

adj. desolate, miserable, gloomy, sorrowful, neglected, lonesome

v. desolate, make miserable, grieve, distress

adj. desolate, waste, bare; God-forsaken, desolated, sorry, disconsolate, dreary, gaunt

adj. desolate, abandoned, lonesome, neglected; miserable