desert
adjective
1. Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
- They were marooned on a desert island in the Pacific.
noun
1. arid land with little or no vegetation
Definition categories: location, biome, parcel, tract
2. (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
Definition categories: attribute, deservingness, merit, meritoriousness
verb
1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
- The mother deserted her children
Similar word(s): abandon, desolate, forsake
Definition categories: cognition, leave
2. 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
Similar word(s): defect
Definition categories: social, flee, fly
3. leave behind
- the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period
Definition categories: motion, leave
Sentences with desert as a verb:
- You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.
- Anyone found deserting will be shot.