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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   desolate

   • adj.
     (of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness；feeling or showing misery, unhappiness, or loneliness
   • v.
     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

2. • 釋義

   adj.

   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 barren, bleak, stark, bare, dismal, ... 更多grim, desert, waste, arid, sterile, wild, windswept, inhospitable, exposed, deserted, uninhabited, unoccupied, depopulated, forsaken, godforsaken, abandoned, unpeopled, untenanted, evacuated, empty, vacated, vacant, unfrequented, unvisited, solitary, lonely, secluded, isolated, remote反義詞 fertile, populous
   • ▪ feeling or showing misery, unhappiness, or loneliness I suddenly felt desolate and bereft 同義詞 miserable, sad, unhappy, melancholy, gloomy, ... 更多glum, despondent, comfortless, depressed, mournful, disconsolate, broken-hearted, heavy-hearted, grief-stricken, wretched, downcast, cast down, dejected, downhearted, dispirited, devastated, despairing, inconsolable, anguished, crushed, forlorn, crestfallen, upset, distressed, grieving, woebegone, bereft, in low spirits, informalblue, down, cut up反義詞 joyful

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. make (a place) bleakly and depressingly empty or bare the droughts that desolated the dry plains 同義詞 devastate, ravage, ruin, make/leave desolate, leave in ruins, ... 更多destroy, wreck, lay waste to, wreak havoc on, level, raze, demolish, wipe out, obliterate, annihilate, gut, depopulate, empty, raredepredate, spoliate
   • ▪ make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends 同義詞 dishearten, dispirit, daunt, distress, depress, ... 更多make sad/unhappy, sadden, cast down, deject, make miserable, make gloomy/despondent, weigh down, oppress, informalshatter, floor反義詞 cheer
3. • 更多解釋

   desolate

   • adj.
     (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness: a desolate Pennine moor
   • v.
     make (a place) appear bleakly empty: the droughts that desolated the dry plains

   Oxford Dictionary