Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Devastated; in ruins: Describes a place, scene, or thing that is severely damaged, destroyed, and deserted, often evoking a sense of desolation and neglect.
   • Desolate and ruined: Conveys a state of being both abandoned and physically broken down.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Sau trận chiến, thành phố chỉ còn lại những phố xá hoang tàn. (After the battle, the city was left with only devastated streets.)
  • Ngôi đình cổ đã bị hoang tàn theo thời gian. (The old communal house has fallen into ruin over time.)
  • Cảnh hoang tàn của khu nhà máy bỏ hoang khiến tôi buồn. (The desolate ruin of the abandoned factory made me sad.)

Advanced Usage

• Used metaphorically to describe non-physical states that are shattered or ruined.
  • Những kế hoạch của họ giờ đã hoang tàn. (Their plans are now in ruins.)

Variants and Related Words

• Hoang vu (adj): wild, uncultivated, and deserted (emphasizes lack of human presence more than physical destruction).
• Đổ nát (adj): collapsed, in pieces, dilapidated (emphasizes the physical state of collapse).
• Tiêu điều (adj): bleak, desolate,萧条 (often describes a scene that is both deserted and economically depressed).

Synonyms

• Ruined: reduced to a state of decay or collapse.
• Desolate: barren, empty, and showing signs of devastation.
• Dilapidated: in a state of disrepair or ruin.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Cảnh vật hoang tàn: a scene/landscape of devastation.
  • Du khách không khỏi xót xa trước cảnh vật hoang tàn. (Tourists could not help but feel sorrow before the devastated landscape.)

adj

1. devastated