desolate

adjective / des-uh-lit / desolated / desolating / desolately / desolateness / desolater / desolation (Atmospheric) grimly barren, deserted, or deprived of inhabitants I have faith in these desolate timesA score to the sound of the feet of a journeyman’s tourI have faith in these desolate timesA feel and a hope and belief that man’s peace will be stillI have faith but for how much longer? Terence Trent D’Arby (I Have Faith in These Desolate Times)

dwindled

verb / dwin-dl / dwindle / dwindling to gradually diminish in size and splendor The fire that we kindled,A beacon by night,When darkness has dwindledGrows pale in the light. George William Russell (Truth)