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}, {lurch}]
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}]