n.
1. Desert, barren land
2. Deserts; wasteland
3. Reward and punishment, merits and demerits, crimes, and behaviors (or facts, qualities, etc.) that should be rewarded and punished.
4. Reward (or punishment) that [often plural] deserves
5. Virtue, merit; Merit, credit; advantage
6. a desolate place, a place lacking something
7. Desolate times
8. Dull things
9. Marine areas where aquatic organisms cannot grow
Other pronunciations: [di? z? :t]
1. abandon, abandon
2. AWOL (duty, job, active service, etc.); (Soldiers) fled and deserted from ...
3. Abandonment; Give up; Leave behind
4. Depart (when needed), leave, abandon (someone) (when most critical) and disappoint (someone).
Other pronunciations: [di? z? :t]
1. (evade responsibility, duty, abandon obligation, etc.) Run away, escape, desert, be a deserter, leave without leave (sometimes used with from, to)
adj.
1. Desert
2. Like desert, barren, barren, uninhabited, uninhabited.
3. growing in, appearing in, and flourishing in the desert.
1. Desert, barren land
Vast areas of land have become desert.
Large areas of land have become deserts.
Few kinds of plants grow in the desert.
Few plants grow in the desert.
2. Deserts; wasteland
3. Reward and punishment, merits and demerits, crimes, and behaviors (or facts, qualities, etc.) that should be rewarded and punished.
4. Reward (or punishment) that [often plural] deserves
5. Virtue, merit; Merit, credit; advantage
6. a desolate place, a place lacking something
7. Desolate times
8. Dull things
9. Marine areas where aquatic organisms cannot grow
Transitive verb vt
Other pronunciations: [di? z? :t]
1. abandon, abandon
Never desert a friend in need.
Never abandon a friend in trouble.
2. AWOL (duty, job, active service, etc.); (Soldiers) fled and deserted from ...
The young soldier deserted the army.
The young soldier deserted from the army.
3. Abandonment; Give up; Leave behind
4. Depart (when needed), leave, abandon (someone) (when most critical) and disappoint (someone).
None of her friends had deserted her.
None of her friends turned their backs on her.
The intransitive verb vi.
Other pronunciations: [di? z? :t]
1. (evade responsibility, duty, abandon obligation, etc.) Run away, escape, desert, be a deserter, leave without leave (sometimes used with from, to)
Many soldiers deserted during the battle.
Many soldiers deserted in that battle.
Adjective adj
1. Desert
2. Like desert, barren, barren, uninhabited, uninhabited.
3. Growing in, appearing in or flourishing in the desert.