Synonyms: 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
Definition: destroy completely; damage irreparably
Usage: You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!; The tears ruined her make-up
Synonyms: depopulate, desolate
Definition: reduce in population
Usage: The epidemic depopulated the countryside
Definition: reduce in size; reduce physically
Usage: Hot water will shrink the sweater; Can you shrink this image?
Synonyms: abandon, forsake, desert, desolate
Definition: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
Usage: The mother deserted her children
Similar words: leave
Definition: go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
Usage: She left a mess when she moved out; His good luck finally left him; her husband left her after 20 years of marriage; she wept thinking she had been left behind
Synonyms: desolate
Definition: crushed by grief
Usage: depressed and desolate of soul; a low desolate wail
Similar words: disconsolate, inconsolable, unconsolable
Definition: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
Usage: inconsolable when her son died
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: inhospitable
Definition: unfavorable to life or growth
Usage: the barren inhospitable desert; inhospitable mountain areas