desolate
verb
Meaning
- To deprive of inhabitants.
- To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- To abandon or forsake something.
- To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
- Barren and lifeless.
- Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
- Dismal or dreary.
- Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
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