desert

Nouns

  • (n) arid land with little or no vegetation

Verbs

  • (v) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
    • The mother deserted her children
    desolate, forsake, abandon,
  • (v) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
    • If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot
    defect,
  • (v) leave behind
    • the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period

Synonyms

desolate forsake abandon defect

Words of close approximity

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