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devastated

/dev-uh-stey-tid/US // ˈdɛv əˌsteɪ tɪd //

惨不忍睹,满目疮痍,崩溃的,惨不忍睹的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : laid waste; made desolate:After the earthquake there were concerns about asbestos in the rubble of many of the devastated houses.
    • : overwhelmed or shocked, especially by profound loss, disappointment, humiliation, etc.:I’m grateful that no one I knew personally died in the hurricane, but my heart goes out to all those devastated families.

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Examples

  • Air travel around the world has been devastated by the fallout from the pandemic, which raised health concerns over flying on the part of consumers and authorities.

  • Covid-19 was the second pandemic of the decade for Liberia, which was devastated by Ebola just five years ago.

  • It’s a phenomenon that risks increasing inbreeding, which could devastate the already endangered species.

  • The theater’s president, whose parents founded the theater, held a press conference Friday to say she and her staff were “heartbroken and devastated” by the stories they’d heard.

  • In an op-ed an educator who works at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education warns that the new state budget’s new formula for school funding could devastate schools across California.

  • Their home probably will be devastated, too, but they received no demolition notice.

  • Of course, the South was much stronger than in the 1870s, not devastated by a war and extremely well represented in Congress.

  • Fallin has received high marks for her leadership after a tornado devastated the town of Moore.

  • Devastated and utterly embarrassed, I meekly raised my hand.

  • When Dan Honig was getting ready to slaughter a steer for the first time, he expected to feel devastated.

  • When Edward reached Durham city, he was apprised of the passage of the Scots by a track of smoking ruins and devastated fields.

  • In recent days it has been again devastated by the great world war, as its gaunt ruins mutely tell.

  • Five years of warfare and its sequence—the bandit community—had devastated the provinces.

  • The reason why these saints are invoked as a group is said to have been an epidemic which devastated Europe from 1346 to 1349.

  • He had gone back to his seat by the fire, and Amarita, answering, stood with her hand upon the devastated table.

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