deserts
Meaning of deserts
- what a person deserves with regard to reward or (more usually) punishment.
the penal system fails to punish offenders in accordance with their deserts
Middle English: via Old French desert, from deservir ‘serve well’ (see deserve).
verb, 3rd person present- abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous.
we feel our public representatives have deserted us
late Middle English: from Old French deserter, from late Latin desertare, from Latin desertus ‘left waste’ (see desert2).
plural noun- a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand.
the desert of the Sinai peninsula is a harsh place
drought and deforestation are turning fragile grasslands into desert
- a flock of lapwings.
a desert of lapwings rises from a ploughed field
Middle English: via Old French from late Latin desertum ‘something left waste’, neuter past participle of deserere ‘leave, forsake’.
Information about deserts
- The singular form of deserts is: desert.
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deserts
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- deserts is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
deserts synonyms
Meaning comeuppance:
Meaning cease to support or look after (someone); desert:
Meaning abandon (a spouse or partner):
Meaning expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy:
Meaning suddenly reject or abandon (a lover):
Meaning fail to care for properly:
Meaning persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution:
Meaning leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere:
Meaning of a brownish-red colour:
Meaning voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up:
Meaning formally declare one's abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession):
Meaning stop associating with:
Meaning abandon or desert (someone):
Meaning end a relationship with (someone) peremptorily:
Meaning abandon or leave:
Meaning refuse to accept; reject:
Meaning agree to give up or do without:
Meaning solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim):
Meaning deny any responsibility or support for:
Meaning renounce a religious or political belief or principle:
Meaning say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical:
Meaning having been deserted or left:
Meaning abandoned or deserted:
Meaning persistently avoided, ignored, or rejected:
Meaning suffering a lack of proper care:
Meaning left without the means to move from somewhere:
Meaning leave (someone) trapped and alone in an inaccessible place, especially an island:
Meaning pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely:
Meaning deprived of or lacking (something):
Meaning having fallen or been allowed to fall vertically:
Meaning an unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown:
Meaning a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land:
Meaning an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region:
Meaning a natural state or uncultivated or uninhabited region:
Anagrams of deserts
Words that rhyme with deserts
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