1.providing no shelter or sustenance;
bare rocky hills
2.pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment;
desolate and despairing
3.crushed by grief;
depressed and desolate of soul
4.made uninhabitable;
upon this blasted heath- Shakespeare
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.devastate or ravage;
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion