Or search: bleak, ditch, stark, barren, expose, maroon, ravage, shrink, strand, abandon, forsake, scourge, devastate, depopulate, inhospitable
3 Syllables: SUU
violated
4 Syllables: SUUU
barricaded, calculated, celebrated, circulated, decimated, decorated, devastated, educated, elevated, emanated, emigrated, emulated, estimated, federated, formulated, generated, granulated, insulated, isolated, meditated, mutilated, penetrated, postulated, predicated, regulated, relegated, renovated, segregated, separated, simulated, speculated, stimulated, stipulated, tabulated, venerated
4 Syllables: USUU
annihilated
5 Syllables: USUUU
accelerated, accumulated, assimilated, capitulated, coagulated, commemorated, confederated, congratulated, degenerated, depopulated, expostulated, inoculated, interpolated, interrogated, investigated, manipulated, perpetuated, premeditated, regenerated, unregulated
6 Syllables: UUSUUU
overestimated, recapitulated, underestimated

Found 60 words across 5 groupings.