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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