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How to sign: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"The mother deserted her children";
Similiar / Same: forsake, desert, abandon
Categories: leave
Within this category: ditch, expose, maroon, walk out
How to sign: devastate or ravage
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion";
Similiar / Same: lay waste to, devastate, ravage, scourge, waste
Within this category: ruin
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: barren, bleak, stark, bare
How to sign: reduce in population
"The epidemic depopulated the countryside";
Similiar / Same: depopulate
How to sign: pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment
"desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn";
Similiar / Same: forlorn, lorn, godforsaken
