To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation.
To sing in the style of blues music.
To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
To abandon or forsake something.
To deprive of inhabitants.
Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
Barren and lifeless.
Dismal or dreary.
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
Sad, forlorn and hopeless.