barren, unpeopled, dusty, windswept, treeless, forlorn, godforsaken, lonely, inhospitable, featureless, grimy, scrubby, bleak, moonlike, ramshackle, untraveled, lonesome, verdant, uninhabited, pathless, untrodden, dreary, seedy, arid, uninviting, secluded, dank, twilit, unpaved, lawless, shadeless, tumbledown, jungly, swampy, idyllic, semidesert, comfortless, hellish, sylvan, unfrequented, marshy, unploughed, lifeless, cheerless, sandy, bucolic, moonlit, underpopulated, picturesque, lightless, unspoiled, unpopulated, decrepit, drear, parched, nondescript, rutted, dingy, bedraggled, dantean, drab, tranquil, potholed, eerie, purgatorial, fogbound, snowy, faraway, lush, darkened, wooded, terra incognita, squalid, sunless, touristed, pristine, flyblown, grim, hardscrabble, scruffy, unlit, snowbound, stony, grassy, dilapidated, craggy, paradisiacal, sullen, grassless, destitute, emptiest, placid, serene, sleepy, dark, isolated, moonless, snowy mountains, picture postcard, wintry, cragged, charmless, peopled, uninhabitable, swept, forsaken, depopulated, devastated, waterless, haunted

ditch, maroon, ruin, strand, walk out

abandoned, bleakness, desert, deserted, desolation, godforsaken, gothic romance, marooned, waste, wild

destroy, leave, reduce, ruin, shrink

abandon, bare, barren, blasted, bleak, depopulate, desert, desolated, destroyed, devastate, devastated, disconsolate, forlorn, forsake, forsaken, godforsaken, inconsolable, inhospitable, lay waste to, lorn, lurch, ravage, ravaged, ruined, stark, unconsolable, waste, wasted