WordWeb Online

1. Empty of people and unused, not maintained by the owner or inhabitants
   "weed-grown yard of a deserted farmhouse";
   - abandoned, derelict

1. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
   "The mother deserted her children";
   - abandon, forsake [literary], 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: uninhabited

Type of: cut and run [informal], flee, fly, go away, go forth, leave, off [informal], take flight

Encyclopedia: Deserted