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desert

English

  1. 🔊 (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
  2. 🔊 arid land with little or no vegetation
  3. 🔊 leave behind
    “the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period”
  4. 🔊 desert (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”
  5. 🔊 leave someone who needs or counts on you
    “The mother deserted her children”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 desertícola desert
  2. 🔊 desierto desert
  3. 🔊 desértico desert
  4. 🔊 monte desert
  5. 🔊 desertar to desert
  6. 🔊 peladero desert, wasteland (area with little or no vegetation)

Similar words

abandon forsake desolate defect arabia deserta death valley lebensraum sahara saharan abandon abscond absquatulate acarpous advantageousness agreeableness air space alkali flat alluvial plain anhydrous apostacize apostatize arid athirst auspiciousness