Definition of desert

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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..

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Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Deservedly :: Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Overgrace :: Overgrace (v. t.) To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert.
Worth :: Worth (a.) Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth..
Underpraise :: Underpraise (v. t.) To praise below desert.
Foundling :: Foundling (v. t.) A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
Desertion :: Desertion (n.) 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..
Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year..
Caravan :: Caravan (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa..
Merit :: Merit (n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Vast :: Vast (superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Deserving :: Deserving (n.) Desert; merit.
Trackless :: Trackless (a.) Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert..
Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
Samiel :: Samiel (n.) A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria..
Misdesert :: Misdesert (n.) Ill desert.
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..
Ratter :: Ratter (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party..
Desertful :: Desertful (a.) Meritorious.
Forsaker :: Forsaker (n.) One who forsakes or deserts.
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