desolate
adjective
1. providing no shelter or sustenance
- the desolate surface of the moon
Similar word(s): inhospitable, bare, barren, bleak, stark
2. crushed by grief
- depressed and desolate of soul
- a low desolate wail
Similar word(s): disconsolate, inconsolable, unconsolable
Sentences with desolate as an adjective:
- a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
- desolate altars
- He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
verb
1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
Similar word(s): abandon, desert, forsake
Definition categories: cognition, leave
2. reduce in population
Similar word(s): depopulate
Definition categories: change, reduce, shrink
3. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly