Thesaurus: desert

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1. n. That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
2. n. A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
3. n. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
4. a. Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
5. v. t. To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
6. v. t. To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
7. v. i. To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
8. n. arid land with little or no vegetation
9. n. (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
10. v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
11. v. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
12. v. leave behind