desolate: significat i definicions

Devoid of inhabitants; deserted: "streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate” ( Daniel Defoe).

Barren; lifeless: the rocky, desolate surface of the moon.

Rendered unfit for habitation or use: the desolate cities of war-torn Europe.

Dreary; dismal.

Bereft of friends or hope; sad and forlorn. See Synonyms at sad.

To rid or deprive of inhabitants.

To lay waste; devastate: "Here we have no wars to desolate our fields” ( Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).

To forsake; abandon.

To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.