desolating 的 2 个定义
- barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited.
- solitary; lonely: a desolate life.
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des·o·lat·ed, des·o·lat·ing.
- to lay waste; devastate.
- to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate.
- to make disconsolate.
- to forsake or abandon.
desolating 近义词
unused, barren
depressed, despondent
ravage, destroy
更多desolating例句
- Nothing beats hauling your truckload of beer coolers and puffy mattresses and folding chairs and half-cord of split pine into the hinterland and setting up a free campsite on some desolate piece of ground and proceeding to do nothing for a few days.
- I have to close my eyes to picture how desolate my neighborhood looked last year, with most everything closed and the near-constant wail of ambulances in the background.
- This one sits high atop a desolate moor overlooking Maud’s seaside town and its even bleaker cheap carnival atmosphere.
- The real tragedy of Ethan Winters is that despite the game’s every effort to portray him as a desolate vessel for the player, his dogged, dumb persistence finally allowed a part of himself to pierce through.
- The novel, an enormous influence on modern zombie horror, channels Atomic Age anxiety by depicting formerly bustling neighborhoods as newly desolate.
- Louisa also devotes much of her time to feeding underprivileged children in the desolate Kurland Village in South Africa.
- Here, only the twisting grey concrete under his tires disturbed the desolate wild.
- In 1979 I published Desolate Angel/Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America.
- He was visiting San Francisco and had questions about Desolate Angel.
- If anything, the ending of Mother Courage is even more desolate than that of Godot—at least Vladimir and Estragon had each other.
- When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore.
- They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.
- When the funeral was over, and they returned to their desolate home, at the sight of the empty cradle Ramona broke down.
- And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.
- And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.