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Desolate

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Definitions for Desolate

verb
leave someone who needs or counts on you
Synonyms
abandon forsake desert
Examples
  1. leave in the lurch
  2. The mother deserted her children
verb
reduce in population
Synonyms
depopulate
Examples
  1. The epidemic depopulated the countryside
verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Synonyms
lay waste to waste devastate ravage scourge
Examples
  1. The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
Synonyms
bare barren bleak stark
Examples
  1. bare rocky hills
  2. barren lands
  3. the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
  4. the desolate surface of the moon
  5. a stark landscape
adjective
crushed by grief
Examples
  1. depressed and desolate of soul
  2. a low desolate wail

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