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单词 desolated
释义
desolated
adjective[after verb]
uk
/ˈdes.əl.eɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈdes.əl.eɪ.t̬ɪd/
extremelysadandaloneorempty:
孤寂的；伤心寂寞的
She was desolatedatthelossof hersister.她因失去妹妹而悲伤不已。
Vaststretchesofneighbourhoodsremaindesolated.大片的街区仍然荒凉孤寂。
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desolate
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
feeling sad and alone
  • lonelyI've been lonely since my friends moved away.
  • lonesomeUSI'm feeling lonesome.
  • isolatedI wouldn't like living out in the country - I'd feel isolated from the rest of the world.
  • forlornThe characters, a flighty heiress and her forlorn suitor, are a delight.
  • lornHe's a lone, lorn creature.
  • desolateAfter the market crash, desolate financiers left the field.
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More examples
  • She wasfeelingdesolated at thethoughtof notseeinghim.
  • He wasseparatedfrom theworldon a desolatedisland.
  • I was desolated by theemotionalseparationfrom mymother.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
  • a dog's lifeidiom
  • angsty
  • be cut upidiom
  • be down in the mouthidiom
  • be in a funkidiom
  • be in bitsidiom
  • distressed
  • dog
  • doleful
  • dolefully
  • lovelorn
  • lovesick
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • lugubriously
  • wistfully
  • woe
  • woe is meidiom
  • woebegone
  • woeful
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(Definition ofdesolatedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdesolated

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Yet it is from the bosom of this desert district that has descended the most frightful visitation ever known to havedesolatedthe island.
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We have put the use of pre-emptive war as a pretext, and wars of conquest, whichdesolatedour continent for centuries, behind us.
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They have since beendesolatedor occupied by the enemy.
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Some of their richest provinces had been devastated anddesolated.
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Whole villages are beingdesolated, and families dispersed to other parts of the country.
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Is there any sense in creating huge housing estates in industriallydesolatedareas?
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Local people would bedesolatedif the community hospital no longer existed.
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Here are four urban district councils isolated anddesolated, with no means of transport at all.
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The countryside is beingdesolatedand devastated by the existing system.
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The characteristic of civil war is that every part of the community that engages in a civil war isdesolatedand impoverished in that war.
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If you take a church and leave it isolated within an area which has already beendesolatedthat church, inevitably, will die.
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It will need greater exploitation and recovery of the existingdesolatedwoodlands.
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There will be a scramble back to thedesolatedplaces, because people will want to get back to the districts they know and in which they lived for so long.
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Two world warsdesolatedour forests.
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The market mechanism alone cannot provide sufficient incentives, from just one of two good annual harvests, to attract population back to the rural areas and to deserted anddesolatedvillages.
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