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desert¹, n. 1. barrens, Sahara, dust bowl; wasteland, waste, wilderness, wild, no man's land; moor, heath, tundra, veldt, steppe, savanna, plain.

-adj. 2. desolate, barren, bare, devoid, empty, destitute, poor, deficient; uncultivable, uncultivatable, sterile, infertile, unfertile, unproductive.
3. arid, dry, moistureless, waterless, droughty, without rain, thirsty, Chem. anhydrous; dehydrated, desiccated, dried up; parched, baked, roasted, toasted, burnt, scorched, hot, burning, torrid.
4. camellike, cactuslike, cactoid, succulent; oasitic, oasal, oasean.

desert², v. 1. abandon, forsake, leave behind, throw over, jilt, run out on, Inf. leave flat, Inf. leave in the lurch, turn one's back on; ignore, cut off, neglect, ostracize.
2. betray, turn traitor, Sl. sell down the river, Sl. rat out or rat out on; apostatize, defect; repudiate, abjure, reject, disown, renounce; renege, bail out, Inf. back out of, back-pedal, Inf. back away from, back off on, Inf. cop out.
3. leave, depart, quit, go away from, vacate, evacuate; secede, withdraw from; flee, fly, bolt, take to one's heels, turn tail, cut and run.
4. relinquish, abdicate, give up, yield, let go, resign.
5. (usu. in reference to military duty) run away, Inf. run, go AWOL; make off, sneak off, abscond, decamp, take French leave.

desert³, n. 1. Often

deserts just reward, due, right, birthright, Literary, guerdon, Archaic, meed; requital, recompense, compensation; just punishment, Inf. comeuppance, Inf. what's coming to one, All Sl. (usu. with get) his, hers, yours, theirs.
2. merit, worth, excellence, value, quality, virtue, integrity; guilt, culpability, blamability; responsibility, accountability, answerability,

deserted, adj. 1. forsaken, abandoned, neglected; cast off, rejected, shunned, ignored, outcast; forlorn, Poetic, lorn, woeful, wretched, unfortunate, friendless, unfriended; destitute, bereft, bereaved.
2. untenanted, tenantless, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant, empty; unfrequented, in a backwater, out of the way, secluded, sequestered; desolate, godforsaken, isolated, lone, lonely, solitary.

deserter, n. 1. runaway, fugitive, escapee, Archaic. runagate; truant, delinquent, derelict; absconder.
2. traitor, betrayer, forsaker, Sl. ratter, Sl. fink; backslider, heretic, apostate, renegade, recreant, turncoat; abdicator, abdicant.
3. shirker, slacker, malingerer, Inf. quitter, Sl. copout, Brit, skulker.

desertion, n. 1. abandonment, forsaking, defection, betrayal; heresy, apostasy, recreance, recreancy; neglect, negligence, dereliction.
2. flight, escape, evasion, elusion; departure, decampment, evacuation.
3. relinquishment, abnegation, resignation, abdication, Archaic, demission; secession, withdrawal, retirement; renunciation, disavowal, recantation, denial.
4. desolation, desertedness, deprivation, bereavement; solitude, isolation, loneliness; separation, separateness, alienation, estrangement.
5. (usu. in reference to military duty) running away or off; absence without leave; going AWOL.

deserve, v. merit, be worthy of, be qualified for; earn, be entitled to, have a right to, have a claim to; have [s.t.] coming to one.

deserved, adj. merited, earned; just, rightful, right, due, equitable, fair; fitting, (of punishment) condign, suitable, appropriate, meet, reasonable, justified, justifiable.

deserving, adj. worthy, qualified; laudable, praiseworthy, commendable, admirable; estimable, meritorious, creditable; virtuous, righteous, upright, dutiful, good; exemplary, sterling, excellent, desideratum, n. hope, dream, wish, heart's desire, desire, aspiration, ideal; need, want, lack; essential, Latin, sine qua non; aim, goal, ambition; objective, object, end, mark, determination, design, v. 1. plan, plot, scheme, draw up plans, work out, block out, map out, shape out a course; organize, arrange, set up; contrive, devise, develop; fashion, fabricate, frame, make, effect, produce; shape, form, mold, forge; construct, build, rear, erect.