DESOLATE
Scrabble letter values: D2E1S1O1L1A1T1E1 = 9
Definition
- adjective providing no shelter or sustenance. — synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark
- adjective crushed by grief.
- verb leave someone who needs or counts on you. — synonyms: abandon, forsake, desert
- verb reduce in population. — synonyms: depopulate
- verb cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. — synonyms: lay_waste_to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge
Examples
- “bare rocky hills”
- “barren lands”
- “the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes”