Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to desert
Participle: deserted
Gerund: deserting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | desert |
| you | desert |
| he;she;it | deserts |
| we | desert |
| you | desert |
| they | desert |
Perfect
| I | have deserted |
| you | have deserted |
| he;she;it | has deserted |
| we | have deserted |
| you | have deserted |
| they | have deserted |
Past
| I | deserted |
| you | deserted |
| he;she;it | deserted |
| we | deserted |
| you | deserted |
| they | deserted |
Pluperfect
| I | had deserted |
| you | had deserted |
| he;she;it | had deserted |
| we | had deserted |
| you | had deserted |
| they | had deserted |
Future
| I | will desert |
| you | will desert |
| he;she;it | will desert |
| we | will desert |
| you | will desert |
| they | will desert |
Future Perfect
| I | will have deserted |
| you | will have deserted |
| he;she;it | will have deserted |
| we | will have deserted |
| you | will have deserted |
| they | will have deserted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | desert |
| you | desert |
| he;she;it | desert |
| we | desert |
| you | desert |
| they | desert |
Perfect
| I | have deserted |
| you | have deserted |
| he;she;it | have deserted |
| we | have deserted |
| you | have deserted |
| they | have deserted |
Imperfect
| I | deserted |
| you | deserted |
| he;she;it | deserted |
| we | deserted |
| you | deserted |
| they | deserted |
Pluperfect
| I | had deserted |
| you | had deserted |
| he;she;it | had deserted |
| we | had deserted |
| you | had deserted |
| they | had deserted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would desert |
| you | would desert |
| he;she;it | would desert |
| we | would desert |
| you | would desert |
| they | would desert |
Perfect
| I | would have deserted |
| you | would have deserted |
| he;she;it | would have deserted |
| we | would have deserted |
| you | would have deserted |
| they | would have deserted |
Imperative
| you | desert |
| we | Let's desert |
| you | desert |
Verbs conjugated like 'desert'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'desert'
assert,
beset,
besort,
deassert,
decern,
decerp,
decurt,
dedent,
defeat,
defect,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position
- abandon, beleave, bug out, forgo, forlet, forsake, leave behind, relinquish
- abandon
- fail, defect, forsake, AWOL, leave
Antonyms
- abandon
- cherish, defend, advocate, favor
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to leave," c.1380, from O.Fr.
deserter "leave," lit. "undo or sever connection," from L.L.
desertare, freq. of L.
deserere "to abandon," from
de- "undo" +
serere "join" (see series). Military sense is first recorded 1647.
2. Borrowed from French déserter, from Late Latin dēsertō, from Latin dēsertus, from dēserō (“abandon”). See: French '
déserter'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] on board with breathless rapidity. The officers, smartly dressed, are at the gangway handing the passengers up the side, and hurrying the men. In five minutes ’ time, the little steamer is utterly deserted, and the packet is beset and over-run by its late freight, who instantly pervade the whole ship, and are to be met with by the dozen in every nook and corner: swarming down below with their own [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There are three principal theatres. Two of them, the Park and the Bowery, are large, elegant, and handsome buildings, and are, I grieve to write it, generally deserted. The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show-box for vaudevilles and burlesques. It is singularly well conducted by Mr. Mitchell, a comic actor of great quiet humour and originality, who is well [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] upon his slate, and hung it up as a kind of protection, and an assurance of Heavenly companionship. He dreams now, sometimes, of his children or his wife, but is sure that they are dead, or have deserted him. He is easily moved to tears; is gentle, submissive, and broken-spirited. Occasionally, the old agony comes back: a very little thing will revive it; even a familiar sound, or the scent of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] while an insane light glanced in her heavy black eyes. “ I'll send him where he belongs,—a short way, too,—one of these nights, if they burn me alive for it ! ” A wild, long laugh rang through the deserted room, and ended in a hysteric sob; she threw herself on the floor, in convulsive sobbing and struggles.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and whoop, and shout, and savage yell, of man and beast, proceeded down to the swamp, followed, at some distance, by every servant in the house. The establishment was, of a consequence, wholly deserted, when Cassy and Emmeline glided into it the back way. The whooping and shouts of their pursuers were still filling the air; and, looking from the sitting-room windows, Cassy and Emmeline could see [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Do you say that I am deserting my enslaved brethren ? I think not. If I forget them one hour, one moment of my life, so may God forget me ! But, what can I do for them, here ? Can I break their chains ? No, not as an individual; [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)