desert
/dɪˈzɝt/ verb C1- To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake. · You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.
- To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission. · Anyone found deserting will be punished.
He/she/it deserts · Past deserted · Past participle deserted · -ing form deserting
Verb forms
- Base form
- desert
- He/she/it
- deserts
- Past
- deserted
- Past participle
- deserted
- -ing form
- deserting
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The long platform was almost deserted; the only living creature in sight being a girl who was sitting on a pile of shingles at the extreme end.
Marilla felt deserted by everyone.
You have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert.
“At the East, not far from here,” said one, “there is a great desert, and none could live to cross it.”
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