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desert
desert is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 11 senses
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- 1noun
That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
- 4adjective
Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
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.
- 7intransitive verb
To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
- 8noun
arid land with little or no vegetation
- 9verb
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"The mother deserted her children"
- 10verb
leave behind
"the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
- 11verb
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"
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