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1/37)1. historically implies ruin resulting from neglect or abuse but in more general use implies a shabby, run-down, or tumbledown condition without direct suggestion of culpability: drove a ~d car. a) dilapidate2. implies a ruining by or as if by crashing or being shattered and is likely to suggest damage that is beyond repair: health ~ed by dissipation. b) wreck3. implies blameworthy delay esp. through laziness, hesitation or apathy: ~ about making every decision. c) procrasinate4. usually suggests the action of destructive agencies and the ending of the value, beauty, or well-being of something or someone or the loss of something vital: a reputation ~ed by ugly rumors. d) ruinabcd Right group ruin mean to subject to forces that are destructive of soundness, worth, or usefulness.
2/37)1. implies a pain caused by deep disappointment, fruitless longing, or unavailing remorse: never felt a moment of ~ following the divorce. a) regret2. suggests a torturing often persistent grief or dread: the ~ felt by the hostages. b) grief3. is weaker than guilty and is likely to connote malfeasance or errors of ignorance, omission, or negligence: a clear case of ~ neglect on the part of the landlord. c) sorrow4. implies a sense of loss or a sense of guilt and remorse: a nation united in ~ upon the death of the President. d) woe5. implies a poignant sorrow for an immediate cause: gave his father much ~. e) culpable6. implies a deep or inconsolable distress or misery: cries of ~ echoed throughout the bombed city. f) anguishafecbd Right <i>group sorrow mean distress of mind.首字母SGAWR想成Wear RAGS衣着褴褛 |
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