1. (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• abandon
• desert
• forsake

2. (verb) reduce in population

• depopulate

3. (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• devastate
• lay waste to
• ravage
• scourge
• waste

4. (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance

• bare
• barren
• bleak
• stark

1. (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• leave

2. (verb) reduce in population

• reduce
• shrink

3. (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• destroy
• ruin

1. (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance

• inhospitable

2. (adjective) crushed by grief

• disconsolate
• inconsolable
• unconsolable

1. (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• ditch
• expose
• maroon
• strand
• walk out

2. (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• ruin

1. (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• abandonment
• abandonment
• defection
• defection
• desertion
• desertion
• apostate
• deserter
• ratter
• recreant
• renegade
• turncoat
• defector
• deserter
• desolation
• forlornness
• loneliness
• forsaking
• giving up

2. (verb) reduce in population

• depopulation
• desolation
• devastation

3. (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• bane
• curse
• nemesis
• scourge
• bareness
• bleakness
• desolation
• nakedness
• depredation
• ravage
• desolation
• desolation
• devastation
• devastation
• desolation
• desolation
• devastation
• devastation
• destroyer
• ruiner
• undoer
• uprooter
• waster
• destruction
• devastation
• devastation
• devastation
• ravaging
• ravaging

4. (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance

• aridity
• barrenness
• fruitlessness
• bareness
• bareness
• starkness
• starkness
• bareness
• bleakness
• desolation
• nakedness
• barren
• waste
• wasteland