Overview of verb desolate

The verb desolate has 3 senses

• abandon, forsake, desolate, desert -- (leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children")


• depopulate, desolate -- (reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside")


• lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge -- (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion")

Overview of adj desolate

The adj desolate has 2 senses

• bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark -- (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 -- (crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail")