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单词 desolate
释义 desolate
adj. & v.
--adj
  1. left alone; solitary.
  2. (of a building or place) uninhabited, ruined, neglected, barren, dreary, empty (a desolate moor).
  3. forlorn; wretched; miserable (was left desolate and weeping).
--vtr.
  1. depopulate or devastate; lay waste to.
  2. (esp. as desolated adj.) make wretched or forlorn (desolated by grief; inconsolable and desolated).
Derivatives
desolately adv. desolateness n. desolator n.
Etymology: ME f. L desolatus past part. of desolare (as DE-, solare f. solus alone)
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