1. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
   "The mother deserted her children";
   - abandon, forsake [literary], desolate
    
2. Leave or abandon a place, leaving it (relatively) empty
   "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
    
3. 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

1. Arid land with little or no vegetation
   "The Sahara desert covers much of North Africa"
    
2. (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
   "His deserts included a medal for bravery"

Sounds like: descendant, descendentt, desser

Derived forms: deserts, deserted, deserting

Type of: biome, cut and run [informal], deservingness, flee, fly, go away, go forth, leave, merit, meritoriousness, off [informal], parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, take flight, tract

Encyclopedia: Desert, Texas