devastated 的定义
- 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.
devastated 近义词
demolish, destroy
更多devastated例句
- 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.