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- English Word Desert Definition 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.
- English Word Desert Definition A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
- English Word Desert Definition Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
- English Word Desert Definition 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.
- English Word Desert Definition 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.
- English Word Desert Definition To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
- English Word Deserted Definition of Desert
- English Word Deserter Definition One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
- English Word Desertful Definition Meritorious.
- English Word Deserting Definition of Desert
- English Word Desertion Definition The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.
- English Word Desertion Definition The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.
- English Word Desertion Definition Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.
- English Word Desertless Definition Without desert.
- English Word Desertlessly Definition Undeservedly.
- English Word Desertness Definition A deserted condition.
- English Word Desertrice Definition A feminine deserter.
- English Word Desertrix Definition Alt. of Desertrice
- English Word Deserve Definition To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
- English Word Deserve Definition To serve; to treat; to benefit.
- English Word Deserve Definition To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
- English Word Deserved Definition of Deserve
- English Word Deservedly Definition According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
- English Word Deservedness Definition Meritoriousness.
- English Word Deserver Definition One who deserves.
- English Word Deserving Definition of Deserve
- English Word Deserving Definition Desert; merit.
- English Word Deserving Definition Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.
- English Word Deshabille Definition An undress; a careless toilet.
- English Word Desiccant Definition Drying; desiccative.