Meaning & Definition of Desolate in English

1. Leave someone who needs or counts on you

• Leave in the lurch

• "The mother deserted her children"

2. Reduce in population

• "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

3. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

1. 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"

2. Crushed by grief

• "Depressed and desolate of soul"

• "A low desolate wail"