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desert English

Meaning desert meaning

What does desert mean?
Definitions in simple English

desert Noun 1

— A desert is a bare area of land, especially one with little water or plants.

desert Noun 2

— A desert is something that is earned or deserved.

desert Verb

— To leave, abandon or forsake someone or something. When he left without us, we felt deserted.

desert

— verb leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch The mother deserted her children — noun arid land with little or no vegetation — verb desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot — verb leave behind the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period

Synonyms desert synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as desert?

desert English » English

abandon forsake leave wilderness quit wasteland waste give up desolate run away deserted defect uninhabited relinquish discard leave behind escape barren renounce flee wild solitary reject neglect merit go away fail dry place drop depart from cast away apostatize abscond abandoned yield worth withdraw strand stark secluded sandy plain run away from reward prairie plain out of the way omit maroon isolated isolate

Topics desert topics

What do people use desert to talk about?
Universe, creation World Land

Forest, grassland, desert
Social behavior Relationships Begin a relationship

End a relationship
Social behavior Behavior Love

Abandon
Social behavior Government Region

Countryside
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Wind

Conjugation desert conjugation

How do you conjugate desert?

desert · verb

Examples desert examples

How do I use desert in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Bedouins live in the desert.
One third of the earth's surface is desert.
Camels are often used to travel in the desert.
A camel is, so to speak, a ship on the desert.
A camel is to the desert what a ship is to the sea.
Those tribes inhabit the desert all year round.
The Sahara is the largest desert in the world.
The Sahara is a vast desert.
We ran out of gas in the middle of the desert.
We saw what looked like an oasis in the desert.
Rats desert a sinking ship.
They found a mysterious city in ruins in the desert.
They shot the film in an actual desert.
That desert looks like the surface of the moon.
This is an animal found in that desert.
They explored the desert in quest of buried treasure.
She is brave to live alone in the desert.
Desert sand cools off rapidly at night.

Movie subtitles

It doesn't have enough greenhouse gases to trap in heat and it's become a cold, barren, desert world.
That person couldn't possibly desert you for one mistake.
In the desert, where I was born, there is but one thing sacred, the guest!
Rats always desert a sinking ship.
You're not going to desert, are you?
Hole after hole dug in this blasted desert.
Stuck in the desert for two months, and was it hot!
The soldiers who killed them were also slain, so no friend could creep to the desert with funeral offerings for my condemned spirit.
Say, what kind of a desert island is this, anyway?
Now I will show you how we make coffee in the desert. underneath the stars.
You, who have ridden bareback over the desert.
Here you can command the asps and scorpions of the desert.
Goodbye, Cleopatra, Queen of the Desert.
He abducted me to the desert and left me there to die.
Go to the desert.
When we came here, there was nothing but desert, swamps, flies and dwarf palms.
Bascom, you tell them pilgrims of yours, there's 500 miles of desert ahead of us and them that don't like what's comin' to them, now's the time for 'em to turn back.
Boy, they're scattered back all across the desert.
You can smell the desert tonight.
The Farmer's Daughter, with Loretta Young, Desert Fury with Burt Lancaster and Flying Leathernecks with John Wayne.
Brothers, Sons of the Desert.
The Sons of the Desert are giving their annual convention in Chicago next week and Stan and I are going.
Well, she didn't desert you after all.
And ere the sun sinks your bones will join theirs and lie bleaching in the desert wastes.
We're over the desert.
You fly off like a swallow. You desert your old guardian. You leave him all alone, worried sick.
All right, desert me.
If I ever see or hear of you being in her presence again. I'll see to it that your worthless carcass lies sizzling in the desert sun. at the mercy of the vultures. You understand?
Because I'm stuck in an illegal prison in the middle of the Sahara fucking desert.
Now this might be because of the sun and this whole desert, shot at scenario thing but I'm just finding it a little hard to concentrate.
Out in the desert.
Well, old wheat king, how about some bread pudding for desert?
And I'll paint you on top of some mesa against the desert sunset.
They tell me there's a lot of desert, though.
Crossing the desert in a jalopy like this.
Boy, but I'd hate to hit that desert in a jalopy like that.
This here's the desert. We're right in it.
This is war. You can't desert me now.
What do you expect in the middle of the desert?
Desert?

News and current affairs

Much of arid sub-Saharan Africa, notably in the Sahel (the region just south of the Sahara desert), has experienced a pronounced drop in rainfall over the past quarter-century.
For example, a large, modern tank army is a powerful resource if a war is fought in a desert, but not if it is fought in a swamp - as America discovered in Vietnam.
Gansu's challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert.
They were in the open, flat desert, with none of the cover and protection that Hezbollah had in their stone-built villages in Lebanon.
A few weeks ago, several youngsters suffocated to death while being deported back to Egypt across the Libyan desert in overloaded trucks.
Should Mubarak and his government fail to recommend constitutional amendments that satisfy these demands, ever more Egyptians will desert the regime and risk their lives in search of salvation in other lands.
To neo-conservative ideologues, it is the democratic oasis in a desert of tyrannies.
There is, once again, virtually no mention of the catastrophe for civilians etched against that desert sky.
Mali's population is diverse: desert nomads, notably Tuaregs, in the north, and a majority of sedentary black populations in the south.
The desert cities of Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu quickly fell to them.
The fundamentalists, having lost most of their vehicles and arms to French aerial bombing, fled headlong into the desert.
But, with thousands of fundamentalist killers in the desert, now poorly motorized but still armed, should they do so?
Declining rainfall contributed directly or indirectly to crop failures, the encroachment of the desert into pasturelands, the decline of water and grassland for livestock, and massive deforestation.
Only then we will know if the trade-off at least made sense, even if for many it was unacceptable: authentic social justice and progress in exchange for authoritarian rule, international ostracism, and a cultural desert.
Skyscrapers rise out of the desert, yet women are not permitted to ride with men in their lifts.
Similarly, at the government's nudging, the mining conglomerate Anglo-American developed a zinc-processing operation at its new Skorpion mine in the Namib desert, creating more skilled jobs for locals.
More recently, Islam Atito, an engineering student at Cairo's Ain Shams University who supported the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was found dead in the desert on the outskirts of Cairo.
Whole cities are rising out of desert sands overnight.
Indeed, Hamas' confrontation with Salafi groups comes as Israel is charging that dozens of foreign terrorists have crossed into Gaza from the Sinai Desert to join the violent underground.
From attacks against Western governments to ethnic clashes in remote desert oases, Libya's revolution is faltering.
Moses wandered with his people in the desert for 40 years, until they had rid themselves of the poisonous slave mentality.
Saleh, emboldened by Gates' remarks, immediately appeared on television and ordered all opponents to leave Yemen, as if millions of Yemenis would simply desert the country, leaving him and his family to reside in peace.
Moreover, when Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam and Said Rashwan, two leading figures in the regime, visited Egypt and attempted to recruit tribes with Libyan branches to attack the Qaddafi-free East from Egypt's western desert, they came away with nothing.

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