Angular and Desolate

adjective

• Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle.
  • usage: "angular momentum"
• Having angles or an angular shape.
  • synonyms: angulate

• (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
• (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
• (a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
• (a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.

verb

• Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.
  • usage: "The mother deserted her children"
  • synonyms: abandon, forsake, desert
• Reduce in population.
  • usage: "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
  • synonyms: depopulate
• Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
  • usage: "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
  • synonyms: lay waste to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge

adjective

• Providing no shelter or sustenance.
  • usage: "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
  • synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark
• Crushed by grief.
  • usage: "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"

• (v.t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
• (a.) Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
• (a.) Destitute of; lacking in.
• (a.) Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
• (a.) Lost to shame; dissolute.
• (v.t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
• (a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.