DESERTED
abandoned, derelict, deserted
(adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants; “weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
deserted
simple past tense and past participle of desert
Adjective
deserted (comparative more deserted, superlative most deserted)
(of a place) Abandoned, without people.
desolate
Source: Wiktionary
DESERT
De*sert", n. Etym: [OF. deserte, desserte, merit, recompense, fr.
deservir, desservir, to merit. See Deserve.]
Definition: That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly
due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward;
merit.
According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27.
Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome.
Shak.
His reputation falls far below his desert. A. Hamilton.
Syn.
– Merit; worth; excellence; due.
Des"ert, n. Etym: [F. désert, L. desertum, from desertus solitary,
desert, pp. of deserere to desert; de- + serere to join together. See
Series.]
1. 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.
A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. Pope.
2. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has
been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary
place.
He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden
of the Lord. Is. li. 3.
Note: Also figuratively.
Before her extended Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life.
Longfellow.
Des"ert, a. Etym: [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F. désert.
See 2d Desert.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or
cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary;
as, they landed on a desert island.
He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. Luke ix. 10.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness
on the desert air. Gray.
Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a
desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place.
– Desert hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var.
Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States.
– Desert mouse (Zoöl.), an American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus),
living in the Western deserts.
De*sert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deserted; p. pr. & vb. n. Deserting.]
Etym: [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere to desert, F. déserter. See
2d Desert.]
1. 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. "The deserted fortress."
Prescott.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: 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.
De*sert", v. i.
Definition: To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service
without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers. Bancroft.
Syn.
– To abandon; forsake; leave; relinquish; renounce; quit; depart
from; abdicate. See Abandon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition