7 adjectives to describe depopulation

The acknowledged gradual depopulation of the whites in the slave states, through sickness, exhaustion of the land, and consequent emigration, united with other causes, there is no doubt will eventually result in a great preponderance of coloured people, who, aroused by the iniquitous treatment they undergo, will rise under some resolute leader, and redress their wrongs.

If the Athenian law were adopted which doomed all to death who should be indifferent to the public welfare in a time of danger, I fear there would be a woeful depopulation here, even among the loudest champions of democracy.

'One of its streets is now lost; and in those that remain there is the silence and solitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation....

The actual depopulation of the Atlantic states was less than the plaints of the time would suggest.

The expulsion of Jews and Moors by religious intolerance, the continual foreign wars, the emigration to America in the hopes of growing rich without work, hunger, the lack of sanitation, and the abandonment of agriculture, had brought about this rapid depopulation.

that John and Sebastian Cabot were fitted out and discovered North America in 1497, which paved the way for the subsequent depopulation of Africa, Italy, and Ireland.

This explains the frightful depopulation which changes vast territories of equatorial Africa into deserts.

7 adjectives to describe  depopulation