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pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" forsaken crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail" inconsolable reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" destroyed leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" 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" inhospitable |
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