made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
(1) deserted or uninhabited, as in: They washed up on the shore of a desolate island
To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood
pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail