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Definitions of desert
  1. verb
    desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
    "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"

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  2. verb
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
    "The mother deserted her children"

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  3. noun
    arid land with little or no vegetation
  4. verb
    leave behind
    "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
  5. noun
    (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
Definition that contains desert
  • rat desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
  • desert desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
  • defect desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
  • disloyal deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle
  • juniper desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista
  • ocotillo desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
  • whitlavia desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes
  • fouquieria splendens desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
  • moloch horridus desert lizard that feeds on ants
  • raetam desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista
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