| Verb | 1. | desolate - leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"leave - go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; "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" expose - abandon by leaving out in the open air; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned" walk out - leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval; "She walked out on her husband and children" ditch - forsake; "ditch a lover" maroon, strand - leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue; "the travellers were marooned" | |
| 2. | desolate - reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"shrink, reduce - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" | |
| 3. | desolate - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"ruin, destroy - destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" ruin - reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war" | |
| Adj. | 1. | desolate - 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"inhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" | |
| 2. | desolate - pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"forsaken - left entirely; "forsaken slopes where children once played" | |
| 3. | desolate - crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail" | |
| 4. | desolate - made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"destroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind" | |