Definition of desert

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Desert (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..

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Desertrice :: Desertrice (n.) A feminine deserter.
Wilderness :: Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind..
Desert :: Desert (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..
Torrid :: Torrid (a.) Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert..
Rat :: Rat (n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union..
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Desert :: Desert (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..
Deservedly :: Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Desertion :: Desertion (n.) The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion..
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment..
Sirocco :: Sirocco (n.) An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily..
Waste :: Waste (v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness..
Merit :: Merit (n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Fail :: Fail (v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
Forlorn :: Forlorn (v. t.) Deserted; abandoned; lost.
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender..
Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..
Desertion :: Desertion (n.) Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.
Desertlessly :: Desertlessly (adv.) Undeservedly.
Slip :: Slip (n.) An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip..
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