devastate

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vt. 毁坏 [法] 使荒废, 毁灭, 掠夺

发音

CA /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/
UK /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/
US /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/
AU /ˈdev.ə.stæɪt/

词形变化

devastated devastates 三单 devastates devastating devastating 现在分词 devastated 过去式 devastated 过去分词

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.

    摧毁

    破坏

    蹂躏

  2. 2.

    To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.

  3. 3.

    To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.

  4. 4.

    To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay

词汇关系

动词

同义词 4

waste desolate scourge ravage

上位词 7

destroy ruin overcome overtake overwhelm overpower whelm

下位词 1

ruin

词源

Borrowed from Latin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō (“to lay waste, devastate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)); from dē- (augmentative prefix) + vastō (“to destroy, lay waste”). See vast. First attested in 1638.

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