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Having been abandoned or cast aside
“For a time, the deserted child drifts hither and thither on the treacherous tide of city life.”
Empty, unoccupied, or left unused
“In the early morning on December 10th, an administrator of the deserted building visited the premises to patrol the area.”
Without friends, companions, or loved ones
“He symbolizes forever the intense loneliness, as final as that of a deserted hermit on a Himalayan peak.”
Abandoned or uninhabited, cut off from the rest of the world or society
Being (alone) by oneself
(of a landscape) Desolate and barren
Cut off, or separated
Deprived of, or not having, parents
(informal) To have gotten rid off
Past tense for to abandon or leave behind
“Friendless, persecuted, poor, about the early age of twenty-two, was the greatest poet which the world has ever seen, compelled to desert his home, his wife, his children, to seek employment from the hands of strangers.”
Past tense for to renounce, especially when contrary to a promise or obligation
“If you now desert the cause of liberty, in this most honorable and important contest, we can have no fellowship with you.”
Past tense for to leave or flee from a place or group
“Once it was apparent that the battle was lost, the troops began to desert en masse.”
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