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Definition of desert

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Desert (v. t.) 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..

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Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc..

Deserving :: Deserving (n.) Desert; merit.

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..

Wasteness :: Wasteness (n.) That which is waste; a desert; a waste.

Etiolated :: Etiolated (a.) Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions..

Indesert :: Indesert (n.) Ill desert.

Drum :: Drum (v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc..

Desertful :: Desertful (a.) Meritorious.

Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.

Fugitive :: Fugitive (n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice..

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..

Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year..

Ratter :: Ratter (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party..

Oasis :: Oasis (n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert..

Torrid :: Torrid (a.) Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert..

Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion..

Abandoned :: Abandoned (a.) Forsaken, deserted..

Merit :: Merit (n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

Merit :: Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

Waive :: Waive (v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.