desolate
- Adjective. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
- Adjective. Barren and lifeless.
- Adjective. Made unfit for habitation or use.
- Adjective. Dismal or dreary.
- Adjective. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- Verb. To deprive somewhere of inhabitants; to devastate or lay waste somewhere; to abandon or forsake something; to make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
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