1. desolate - verb
· leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
Synonym(s): abandon, forsake, desert
Hypernym(s): leave
2. desolate - verb
· reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
Synonym(s): depopulate
3. desolate - verb
· cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
Synonym(s): lay_waste_to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge
4. desolate - adjective
· 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(s): bare, barren, bleak, stark
5. desolate - adjective
· crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
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