desolate
verbs
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"The mother deserted her children"
is derived from
reduce in population
"The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
is derived from
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
adjectives
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"
crushed by grief
"depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
is similar to
sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
"inconsolable when her son died"
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