Word Meaning

Meaning of "deserts" and the crossword clue

- Abandon
- Abandon callously or treacherously
- Barren place
- Dry area
- Leaves in order to join an opposing cause
- Make lifeless
- Sandy tract
- Storm out
- Wasteland
- Abandons
- Abandons arid areas
- Comeuppance, just ...
- Dry areas
- Gobi, Tanami, etc.
- Goes AWOL
- Runs away
- Takes off
- 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 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 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.