deserted Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
   abandon; desolate; desert; forsake.
   
   • The mother deserted her children
2. verb desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
   defect; desert.
   
   • If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot
3. verb leave behind
   desert.
   
   • the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period
4. adjective satellite forsaken by owner or inhabitants
   derelict; abandoned.
   
   • weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse

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