Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.

synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake.

Dutch: verzaken

Reduce in population.

synonym: depopulate.

Dutch: ontvolken

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.

synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste.

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.    destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual etc. 756; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish [Slang], undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.    smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate^†; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf^†, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.    deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle etc. (render useless) 645; devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate etc. 301.    ... show more

Dutch: verwoesten

Providing no shelter or sustenance:
— The desolate surface of the moon.

synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark.

Roget 837: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery^†; unlively^†; unhappy etc. 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste [Fr.], clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.    dreary, flat; dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater^†; depressing etc. v.. melancholy as a gib cat;" oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one's luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish^†, dumpish, mopish^†, moping; moody, glum; sulky etc. (discontented) 832; out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary etc. 841; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen^†, chopfallen^†, jaw fallen, crest fallen.    sad, pensive, penseroso [It], tristful^†; dolesome^†, doleful; woebegone; lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped^†, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious^†, saturnine, splenetic; lackadaisical.    serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.    disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole [Fr.], sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir [Fr.]; in despair etc. 859; lost.    overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken etc. (mental suffering) 828^†; cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn.    ... show more

Roget 859: hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir [Fr.], forlorn, desolate; inconsolable etc. (dejected) 837; broken hearted.    unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over.    out of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable etc. 471; past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall; at one's last gasp etc. (death) 360; given up, given over.    incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy; incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone; immitigable.    ... show more

Roget 893: secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent^†, private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; the world forgetting by the world forgot" [Pope]. snug, domestic, stay-at-home.    unsociable; unsocial, dissocial^†; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable^†, unclubbable, sauvage [Fr.], troglodytic.    solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.    estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless; abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended^†; kithless^†, friendless, homeless; lorn^†, forlorn, desolate.    unvisited, unintroduced^†, uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.    banished etc. v.. ... show more

Roget 87: one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless^†.    unaccompanied, unattended; solus [Lat.], single-handed; singular, odd, unique, unrepeated^†, azygous, first and last; isolated etc. (disjoined) 44; insular.    monospermous^†; unific^†, uniflorous^†, unifoliate^†, unigenital^†, uniliteral^†, unijocular^†, unimodal [Math.], unimodular^†.    lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary.    insecable^†, inseverable^†, indiscerptible^†; compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable^†.    ... show more

Crushed by grief.