desolate

Adjective

• crushed by grief
  • depressed and desolate of soul
    
  • a low desolate wail
    

• 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
    

Verb

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
    

• reduce in population
  • The epidemic depopulated the countryside
    

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  • The mother deserted her children
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bare , barren , bleak , stark , lay waste to , waste , devastate , ravage , scourge , depopulate , abandon , forsake , desert