All desert synonyms
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D d verb desert
- abandon β If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- quit β to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- depart β When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- bolt β A bolt is a long metal object which screws into a nut and is used to fasten things together.
- vacate β to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- flee β to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
- forsake β to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.
- betray β If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
- give up β the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- fly β to move through the air using wings.
- relinquish β to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- tergiversate β to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- abscond β If someone absconds from somewhere such as a prison, they escape from it or leave it without permission.
- resign β to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- light β a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- jilt β to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
- renounce β to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- maroon β dark brownish-red.
- walk β to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- decamp β If you decamp, you go away from somewhere secretly or suddenly.
- split β to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- duck β any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- apostatize β to forsake or abandon one's belief, faith, or allegiance
- beach β A beach is an area of sand or stones beside the sea.
- strand β to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- chuck β When you chuck something somewhere, you throw it there in a casual or careless way.
- walk out on β to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- discard β to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- dump β to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
- ditch β a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- defect β A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
- scarper β to flee or depart suddenly, especially without having paid one's bills.
noun desert
- wasteland β land that is uncultivated or barren.
- wilderness β a wooded area in NE Virginia: several battles fought here in 1864 between armies of Grant and Lee.
- waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- sahara β a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
- barren β A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
- flats β horizontally level: a flat roof.
- solitude β the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- wild β living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- badland β Alternative form of badlands.
- reward β a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- return β to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
- recompense β to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- wages β Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- punishment β the act of punishing.
- comeuppance β If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
adjective desert
- uncultivated β prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.