• 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"

'Desolate' in other languages