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desolate

English

  1. 🔊 crushed by grief
    “depressed and desolate of soul”
  2. 🔊 providing no shelter or sustenance
    “bare rocky hills”
  3. 🔊 reduce in population
    “The epidemic depopulated the countryside”
  4. 🔊 leave someone who needs or counts on you
    “The mother deserted her children”
  5. 🔊 cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
    “The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 desolar to desolate, destroy
  2. 🔊 desolado desolate, brokenhearted, bleak (sad, hopeless)

Similar words

lay waste to waste devastate ravage scourge depopulate abandon forsake desert bare barren bleak stark abandoned acarpous acheronian afflict aggrieve agonize alone anguish annihilate arid bare