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1. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
   "The mother deserted her children"
   - abandon, forsake, desolate
    
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"
   - defect
    
3. Leave behind
   "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"

1. Arid land with little or no vegetation

Sounds like: dessert

Derived forms: deserting, deserts, deserted

See also: deserter, desertion

Type of: biome, cut and run, flee, fly, go away, go forth, leave, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, take flight, tract

Encyclopedia: Desert