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