Desolate
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: deserted and devoid of inhabitants barren and lifeless made unfit for habitation or use dismal or dreary sad, forlorn and hopeless
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To deprive somewhere of inhabitants; to devastate or lay waste somewhere; to abandon or forsake something; to make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
Example sentence: Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.
Depopulate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.