vverb.cognitionleave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurchSynset:abandon desert forsake
Examples:- The mother deserted her children
Derivationally Related Form:deserterforsakingdesolationabandonmentdesertion
Hypernyms:leave
Inherited Hypernyms:abandonleave
Direct Hyponyms:ditchexposemaroonstrandwalk out
Full Troponyms:ditchexposemaroonwalk out
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | Sam cannot --- Sue (apply to: forsake, desert)
vverb.changereduce in populationSynset:depopulate
Examples:- The epidemic depopulated the countryside
Derivationally Related Form:depopulationdesolation
Hypernyms:reduce shrink
Inherited Hypernyms:depopulateshrinkdecreasechange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.changecause extensive destruction or ruin utterlySynset:devastate lay waste to ravage scourge waste
Examples:- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Derivationally Related Form:wasterdesolationravagingravagedevastationscourge
Hypernyms:destroy ruin
Inherited Hypernyms:lay waste todestroy
Direct Hyponyms:ruin
Full Troponyms:ruin
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
adj satadj.allproviding no shelter or sustenanceSynset:bare barren bleak stark
Examples:- bare rocky hills
- barren lands
- the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
- the desolate surface of the moon
- a stark landscape
Antonyms:hospitable
Derivationally Related Form:starknessbleaknessbarenessbarrenbarrenness
Inherited Hypernyms:bare
Similar to:inhospitable
adj satadj.allcrushed by griefExamples:- depressed and desolate of soul
- a low desolate wail
Antonyms:consolable
Inherited Hypernyms:desolate
Similar to:disconsolate inconsolable unconsolable