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Desert

noun

Arid land with little or no vegetation.

verb

(past & past part. deserted; pres. part. deserting)

Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch. Synonyms: abandon, desolate, forsake.

Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army. Synonym: defect.

Leave behind.

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"Desert" Quotes from Famous Books

... was to make a voyage of discovery to Tabor Island, although Harding could not approve of a voyage simply for curiosity's sake, for there was evidently nothing to be found on this desert and almost arid rock. A voyage of a hundred and fifty miles in a comparatively small vessel, over unknown seas, could not but cause him some anxiety. Suppose that their vessel, once out at sea, should be unable to reach Tabor Island, and could not return to Lincoln Island, ...

— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne

... a smile.) Lawyer! I cannot bear that name; it conveys the idea of an entangled net, or of a deceitful guide, that will lead you out of the way into the pathless desert. We should not be called Lawyers, ...

— The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts • Augustus William Iffland

... through the very middle of the salt-sea billows, rise up, in shining columns, fountains of fresh water.[Footnote: See Mr. Yates's 'Annotations upon Fellowes's Researches in Anatolia,' as one authority for this singular phenomenon.] In the desert of the sea are found Arabian fountains of Ishmael and Isaac! Are these fountains poisoned for the poor victim of fever, because they have to travel through a contagion of waters not potable? Oh, ...

— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey

... emphatically declined to adopt. Death would be preferable to that. He would not desert those who had so nobly ...

— The Giraffe Hunters • Mayne Reid

... a preacher. Many years afterward he wrote of that disappointment as follows: "For five years I saw myself sitting idly by the wayside, hopeless and discouraged. I felt somewhat like a traveler, parched with thirst, on a wide and weary desert, who sees the mirage of green trees and springs of cool water that has mocked his vision, slowly fade away out of his sight. So seemed to perish my castles in the air. At that time making proclamation of the ancient gospel was too vigorous a work, and too full of hardship ...

— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

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