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DESERTED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forsaken by owner or inhabitants

Example:

weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse

Synonyms:

abandoned; derelict; deserted

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

uninhabited (not having inhabitants; not lived in)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb desert

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 Context examples: 

It seemed to have swept the streets unusually bare of passengers, besides; for Mr. Utterson thought he had never seen that part of London so deserted.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But, unless he was acting under force, I cannot forgive young Jim for having deserted me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The picture which she had then drawn of the privations of the approaching winter, had proved erroneous; no friends had deserted them, no pleasures had been lost.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The next day it came out in the evening papers that Private Miles, of the Coldstream Guards, on duty outside Marlborough House, had deserted his post without leave, and was therefore courtmartialed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not like to be deserted this way.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Impossible!—when I told you how she, on the contrary, deserted me: the idea of my insolvency cooled, or rather extinguished, her flame in a moment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You, John, are also from the cloisters, but I trow that you do not feel that you have deserted the old service in taking on the new.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I deserted the schooner and landed on the beach, I headed inland for some place of hiding.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)