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1. An outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved
   - comeuppance, comeupance

1. Arid land with little or no vegetation

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"

Sounds like: desert, desserts, dessert

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

Encyclopedia: Deserts