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abandon, forsake, desolate, defect, godforsaken, waste, wild Definition: an arid region with little or no vegetation;leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children";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";located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"; Hyponyms: Arabian Desert, Atacama Desert, Australian Desert, Colorado Desert, Death Valley, Gibson Desert, Gila Desert, Gobi, Gobi Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Kalahari, Kalahari Desert, Libyan Desert, Mojave, Mojave Desert, Mohave, Mohave Desert, Namib Desert, Negev, Negev Desert, Nubian Desert, Painted Desert, Patagonian Desert, Sahara, Sahara Desert, Simpson Desert, Sinai, Sinai Desert, Sonoran Desert, expose, walk out, ditch, maroon, strand, rat Entailments: protest, resist, dissent Derivational Morphology:
desertion, abandonment, defection, deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter, defector, forlornness, loneliness, desolation, forsaking, giving up, apostasy, renunciation Anagrams:
rested
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