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1. Forsaken by owner or inhabitants
   - abandoned, derelict

1. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
   "The mother deserted her children"
   - abandon, forsake, desolate
    
2. Leave (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"

See also: deserter, desertion, uninhabited

Type of: cut and run, flee, fly, go away, go forth, leave, take flight

Encyclopedia: Desert