crushed vs desolate

crushed

adj
  • Broken, saddened, depressed. 

  • Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed. 

  • Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments. 

desolate

adj
  • Sad, forlorn and hopeless. 

  • Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc. 

  • Barren and lifeless. 

  • Dismal or dreary. 

  • Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. 

verb
  • To devastate or lay waste somewhere. 

  • To abandon or forsake something. 

  • To deprive of inhabitants. 

  • To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless. 

How often have the words crushed and desolate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )