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desolate 音標拼音: [d'ɛsələt] [d'ɛzələt] [d'ɛsəl ,et] a. 荒涼的 荒涼的 desolate adj 1: providing no shelter or sustenance; " bare rocky hills"; " barren lands"; " the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; " the desolate surface of the moon"; " a stark landscape" [ synonym: { bare}, { barren}, { bleak}, { desolate}, { stark}] 2: crushed by grief; " depressed and desolate of soul"; " a low desolate wail" v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; " The mother deserted her children" [ synonym: { abandon}, { forsake}, { desolate}, { desert}] 2: reduce in population; " The epidemic depopulated the countryside" [ synonym: { depopulate}, { desolate}] 3: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; " The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [ synonym: { lay waste to}, { waste}, { devastate}, { desolate}, { ravage}, { scourge}] Desolate \ Des" o* late\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Desolated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Desolating}.] 1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. [ 1913 Webster] Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. -- Sparks. [ 1913 Webster]
Desolate \ Des" o* late\, a. [ L. desolatus, p. p. of desolare to leave alone, forsake; de- solare to make lonely, solus alone. See { Sole}, a.] 1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. [ 1913 Webster] I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. -- Jer. ix. 11. [ 1913 Webster] And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless. [ 1913 Webster] Have mercy upon, for I am desolate. -- Ps. xxv. 16. [ 1913 Webster] Voice of the poor and desolate. -- Keble. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Lost to shame; dissolute. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Destitute of; lacking in. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] I were right now of tales desolate. -- Chaucer. Syn: Desert; uninhabited; lonely; waste. [ 1913 Webster] 200 Moby Thesaurus words for " desolate": abandoned, acarpous, acheronian, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, alone, anguish, annihilate, arid, bare, barren, black, bleak, break down, bring to ruin, bring to tears, celibate, cheerless, childless, comfortless, condemn, confound, consume, crush, crushed, cut up, damn, dark, daunt, deal destruction, decimate, deep- troubled, defenseless, deject, dejected, demolish, depopulate, depredate, depress, depressed, desecrate, desert, deserted, desole, despoil, despondent, destitute, destroy, destroyed, devastate, devastated, devour, disconsolate, discourage, discouraged, dishearten, dismal, dismay, dispeople, dispirit, dispirited, dissolve, distressed, down, downcast, downhearted, drained, draw tears, drear, dreary, dried- up, dry, embitter, empty, engorge, excruciate, exhausted, fallow, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, funereal, gaunt, gelded, gloomy, gobble, gobble up, godforsaken, grieve, gut, gut with fire, havoc, heart- stricken, heart- struck, heartsick, heartsore, helpless, homeless, hopeless, impotent, incinerate, inconsolable, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, inundate, isolated, issueless, jejune, joyless, kithless, lay in ruins, lay waste, leached, lonely, low- spirited, melancholy, menopausal, miserable, motherless, mournful, murky, neglected, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, obliterate, oppress, outcast, overwhelm, pillage, poor, poverty- stricken, prostrate, ravage, ravaged, raze, remote, ruin, ruinate, ruined, sack, sad, sadden, shipwreck, sick, sick at heart, sine prole, solitary, somber, sorrow, sorrowful, soul- sick, spiritless, spoliate, sterile, stricken, sucked dry, suicidal, swallow up, teemless, throw into disorder, torment, torture, unconsolable, uncouth, uncultivated, unfertile, unfrequented, unfriended, unfruitful, unhappy, uninhabited, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unoccupied, unpeople, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, upheave, vacant, vandalize, vaporize, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue, woebegone, woeful, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck, wretched
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