Deserts - English meaning

verb

Cease to support or look after (someone); desert.

Usage examples:

Her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age

noun

Complete lack of inhibition or restraint.

Usage examples:

She sings and sways with total abandon

verb

Forsake; leave behind

verb

Expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy.

Usage examples:

A double agent who betrayed some 400 british and french agents to the germans

verb

To be not loyal to your country or to someone who believes you are loyal, often by doing something harmful

Usage examples:

Some lawmakers say they feel betrayed by the president., she could not help betraying her sympathy …

phrasal verb

Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat

phrasal verb

To stop doing or to stop having something

Usage examples:

He gave up jogging after his heart attack., although behind in the chess match, he refused to give …

phrasal verb

To stop trying to do something before you have finished, usually because it is too difficult

Usage examples:

She has a struggle trying to persuade the board to accept her proposal, but she's determined not to…

verb

Suddenly reject or abandon (a lover).

Usage examples:

He was jilted at the altar by his bride-to-be

noun

A person, especially a woman, who capriciously rejects a lover.

Usage examples:

They'll teach you the guilt of coquetting and ogling, and playing the jilt

verb

Go away from.

Usage examples:

She left london on june 6

noun

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

noun

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces.

Usage examples:

Joe was home on leave

adjective

Of a brownish-red colour.

Usage examples:

Ornate maroon and gold wallpaper

noun

A brownish-red colour.

Usage examples:

The hat is available in either white or maroon

verb

Leave (someone) trapped and alone in an inaccessible place, especially an island.

Usage examples:

A novel about schoolboys marooned on a desert island

verb

Fail to care for properly.

Usage examples:

The old churchyard has been sadly neglected

noun

The state of being uncared for.

Usage examples:

The place had a hopeless air of neglect

verb

Persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution.

Usage examples:

He shunned fashionable society

verb

Avoid and stay away from deliberately

verb

To avoid or refuse to accept someone or something

Usage examples:

She shunned publicity after she retired from the stage.

verb

Leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere.

Usage examples:

Two of the firm's trucks are stranded in france

noun

The shore of a sea, lake, or large river.

Usage examples:

A heron glided to rest on a pebbly strand

noun

A single thin length of something such as thread, fibre, or wire, especially as twisted together with others.

Usage examples:

Strands of coloured wool

verb

Use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

Usage examples:

We can't afford to waste electricity

adjective

(of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process.

Usage examples:

Ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly

noun

An act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

Usage examples:

It's a waste of time trying to argue with him

noun

An unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown.

Usage examples:

We'd creep through a hole in the fence on this bit of wasteland and play games in the bushes

noun

A large area of land that has not been developed, usually because it cannot be easily used

Usage examples:

Rain forests are being transformed into barren wasteland., television is a vast wasteland.

noun

An uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.

Usage examples:

Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabit…

noun

An area of land that has not been farmed or had towns and roads built on it, esp. because it is difficult to live in as a result of its extremely cold or hot weather or bad earth

Usage examples:

Large parts of canada are still wilderness.

noun

If someone previously in a position of power is now in the wilderness, they have lost their power and it is not clear if or how they will get it back

Usage examples:

His dismissal from the cabinet led to a long period in the political wilderness.

noun

A natural state or uncultivated or uninhabited region.

Usage examples:

Kiwis are virtually extinct in the wild

verb

Treat (a person or animal) harshly, so that they become untrusting or nervous.

Usage examples:

Let your pigeon fly for a while: we don't want to wild him

adjective

(of an animal or plant) living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated.

Usage examples:

A herd of wild goats