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(v)
(transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
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(n)
A fault or malfunction.
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
(adj)
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
(of a place) Not offering shelter; barren or forbidding. [from 17th c.]
(figurative, of a location) Desolate, boring and depressing.
A sudden or unsteady movement.
(chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
To give up or renounce one's position or belief.
The act of deserting.
Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
(by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
A walking trip.
The process by which a geographic region becomes a desert, resulting from natural changes in climate or by human activity.
Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
Alternative spelling of Sahrawi. [A person from Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara).]
A native or inhabitant of the Sahara.
A person from Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara).
The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
A desert in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
(geomorphology) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
(Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
(figuratively) an expanse of sand, as in a desert or on a sandy seashore.
(usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
(geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.
A plant community characterized by scrub vegetation, consisting of low shrubs, mixed with grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
A long-term lack of rainfall or moisture.
The state of being desolated or laid waste
(transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
(transitive) To discard or abandon.
(intransitive) To run away; to escape.
Very dry.
A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
(US, with "the") The Great Plains region of North America.
(botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.
A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.
A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
(of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
A semiarid region, approaching desert.
Baked by the heat of the sun.
mountain range
Resembling a desert
Obsolete spelling of desert. [A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.]
A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
The state or quality of being arid.
(N)
the debut crime novel by Australian author Chris Hammer.
Any of several North American aromatic shrubs of the genus Artemisia, having silvery-grey, green leaves.
A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
The central region of the United States during the 1930s.
A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.
A flat and treeless Arctic biome.
An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
A continental region consisting of the portion of the Earth north of the Arctic Circle, containing the North Pole.
Turned into a desert
(figuratively) A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.
A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
Dated form of bedouin.
Dry, arid, lacking water.
The sloping side of a mountain.
A desert region in southern Israel.
(by extension) A desolate or devastated landscape.
Alternative form of badlands. [(geomorphology) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.]
(climatology) Very arid, with an aridity index of less than 0.05.
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.
Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.
The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia.
Dated spelling of veld.
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.