verb
- Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.
- usage: "The mother deserted her children"
- 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"
- Leave behind.
- usage: "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
- synonyms: desert
adjective
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