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located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"

located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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.

A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.

Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.

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.

To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

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.

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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.

A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.

Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.

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.

To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

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.

To forsake; abandon.

To run from duty.

A deserved reward or punishment; merit.

A wilderness; waste; a solitude.

Pertaining to a desert.

The reward or punishment deserved: claim to reward: merit.

To leave: to forsake.

To run away: to quit a service, as the army, without permission.

Deserted: forsaken: desolate: uncultivated.

A desolate or barren place: a wilderness: a solitude.

A desolate place; solitude.

Desolate; uninhabited; barren.

Merit; reward.

To leave; forsake.

To quit a service without leave.

To leave unwarrantably; forsake; abandon.

To forsake a post or service without leave.

Geog. A region destitute of vegetation, rainless, and commonly uninhabitable.

The state of deserving, or that which is deserved; merit or demerit.

n. A deserted or forsaken tract of land; an unproductive region; a vast sandy plain; a wilderness; a solitude.

n. [French] That which is deserved; the reward or punishment to which one is entitled—usually in a good sense;—worth; excellence; due.

Wilderness, waste country, uninhabited place.

Wild, waste, solitary.

Qualities or conduct considered with respect to rewards or punishments, degree of merit or demerit; excellence, right to reward, virtue.