desolate

Meanings

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
• reduce in population
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• providing no shelter or sustenance
  • "the desolate surface of the moon"
• crushed by grief
  • "depressed and desolate of soul"
  • "a low desolate wail"

Synonyms

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