desolate
- (of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness；feeling or showing misery, unhappiness, or loneliness
- make (a place) bleakly and depressingly empty or bare；make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy
verb: desolate, 3rd person present: desolates, gerund or present participle: desolating, past tense: desolated, past participle: desolated
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- 釋義
形容詞
- 1. (of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness a desolate moor 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ feeling or showing misery, unhappiness, or loneliness I suddenly felt desolate and bereft 同義詞 反義詞
動詞
- 1. make (a place) bleakly and depressingly empty or bare the droughts that desolated the dry plains 同義詞
- ▪ make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends 同義詞 反義詞
- 更多解釋
- (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness: a desolate Pennine moor
- make (a place) appear bleakly empty: the droughts that desolated the dry plains
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