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devoid

/dih-void/US // dɪˈvɔɪd //UK // (dɪˈvɔɪd) //

没有,缺乏,没有人,毫无生气

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not possessing, untouched by, void, or destitute.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deplete or strip of some quality or substance: imprisonment that devoids a person of humanity.

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Examples

  • The prevalent use of gift registries would argue otherwise — but while they ensure that people get the stuff they want, they are devoid of any thought or sentiment.

  • The Greenbelt store was devoid of customers Saturday afternoon save for a preteen boy and his mom browsing the orderly rows of games, most bearing “pre-owned” stickers.

  • Nobody in their right mind would ever give a job to someone so completely devoid of the most rudimentary social skills.

  • Rivers’s lack of championship rings will likely invoke comparisons to Fouts, Dan Marino and Warren Moon, three Hall of Fame quarterbacks that are also devoid of a Super Bowl win.

  • They pointed the most powerful telescope in history, the Hubble Space Telescope, at a dark patch of sky devoid of known stars, gas, or galaxies.

  • This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

  • Yes, it was a fairly disappointing year in music—one devoid of Goth teen prodigies, Yeezy, and galvanizing rock anthems.

  • The gift of candidates devoid of personality is that the character of the electorate has a chance to come through.

  • The wheel eventually wound up inventoried, “utterly devoid of its emotional significance” in a museum.

  • To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking.

  • They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.

  • And being devoid of ambition, and striving not toward accomplishment, she drew satisfaction from the work in itself.

  • Like his fellow Marshals, Macdonald hated the Spanish war, which was a war of posts, and devoid of glory.

  • The children were left to her stepdaughter, herself still half a child, and devoid of all experience.

  • Baroudi was as totally devoid of ordinary scruples as the average well-bred Englishman is full of them.