desolate (
http://definr.com/desolate)
adj 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" [syn:
bare,
barren,
bleak,
stark]
2: pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment;
"desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" [syn:
forlorn,
godforsaken,
lorn]
3: crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low
desolate wail"
4: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
"a wasted landscape" [syn:
blasted,
desolated,
devastated,
ravaged,
ruined,
wasted]
v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the
lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn:
abandon,
forsake,
desert]
2: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the
countryside" [syn:
depopulate]
3: devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside
after the invasion" [syn:
lay waste to,
waste,
devastate,
ravage]