What is the meaning of deserted?

Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.
- usage: "The mother deserted her children"
- synonyms: abandon, forsake, desolate, desert
Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army.
- usage: "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
- synonyms: defect, desert
Leave behind.
- usage: "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
- synonyms: desert

Forsaken by owner or inhabitants .
- usage: "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
- synonyms: abandoned, derelict

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APA	WordNet. (2010). deserted. Retrieved October 19, 2018, from http://smartdefine.org/deserted/definitions/1172282
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