beyond belief; preposterous; absurd; intemperate; dissipated

wilderness

crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty

desolate

to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste; wasted; to neglect (one's work or study)

left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild

desert; desolate wilderness; barren wasteland; vast and desolate

wasteland; uncultivated land

barren or uninhabited island; CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]

wasteland

beyond belief; incredible; preposterous; fantastic

desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect

funerals and famines

(literary) famine

(neologism, attested by 2016) TV drama drought; nothing good to watch

to be tolerant; to be forgiving; to conceal; to cover

to open up land (for agriculture)

to prepare against natural disasters

to open up land (for agriculture)

to lie idle (of arable land); fig. rusty because of lack of practice

to open up land (for agriculture)

to glean; to collect scraps; to eke out a meager living

natural disaster; famine

to clear waste land or forest by burning; slash-and-burn (agriculture)

abandoned land

shortage of electricity

alkali wasteland

famine; critical shortage of grain

wallowing in lust

Arai (Japanese surname)

desolate; deserted; out-of-the-way

desolate and cold; frozen wastes

desert mountain; barren hill

year of famine

to abandon; to let go to waste

drought and famine

an abandoned village

licentious

to be out of practice; rusty

desolate and poor; infertile

weeds; brush (vegetation); wild grassland

remote region

desolate area outside a town

savage; wild; uncivilized territory

to escape from a famine; to get away from a famine-stricken region

out-of-the-way places

the Great Northern Wilderness (in Northern China)

pioneer; groundbreaker

unprecedented; for the first time; never before; first ever