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Words related to desolate

Related / Similar Words: lay waste to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge, depopulate, abandon, forsake, desert, blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted, forlorn, godforsaken, lorn, bare, barren, bleak, stark

Definition:

devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion";

reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside";

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children";

made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape";

pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn";

crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail";

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";

Hyponyms: ruin, expose, walk out, ditch, maroon, strand

Derivational Morphology: bane, curse, scourge, nemesis, ravage, depredation, ravaging, devastation, bleakness, desolation, destruction, destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter, depopulation, desertion, abandonment, defection, deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter, defector, forlornness, loneliness, forsaking, giving up

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