v. reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

v. devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

adj. 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"

adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

adj. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"

adj. "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"

v. plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"

v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"

v. destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"

v. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

v. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"

v. leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"

v. change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon"

v. remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

v. get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"

v. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"

v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

v. abandon one's beliefs or allegiances

v. give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"

v. avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

v. promise to abstain from; "I have sworn off cigarettes altogether"

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

adj. characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; " a solitary walk"

adj. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died"

adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

adj. full of sorrow

adj. lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"

adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"

adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"

adj. open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"

adj. forsaken by owner or keeper ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"

adj. (of a young animal) abandoned by its mother and raised by hand: "a cade calf"

adj. something or someone judged unacceptable; "rejected merchandise"

adj. cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

adj. with no people living there; "vast unpopulated plains"

adj. destroyed completely

adj. affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"

adj. reduced to nothingness

adj. torn down and broken up

adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"

adj. destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"

adj. of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement

adj. destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"

adj. used of automobiles; completely demolished; "the insurance adjuster declared the automobile totaled"

adj. laid waste by war

v. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"

adj. densely populated

adj. characterized by abundance of verdure