Definitions
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. having no residents.
- adj. no longer used by people.
- adj. remote from civilization.
- adj. being left by another without support or assistance; left in the lurch; -- of people.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. forsaken by owner or inhabitants
Examples
“These are what they call the deserted beds," he said again.”
“The pilot and third officer loomed above him, as did the man at the wheel, a bulky German, deserted from a warship, whom he had signed on in Rangoon.”
“The majority of horror movies are set in deserted areas with limited proximity to towns and major cities.”
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“It has been stored in deserted mines, and used to build a golf course in Chesapeake, Virginia.”
“Sea on the west, more sailors deserted from the whale-ships to the north, and they all starved together in right brotherly fashion.”
“It is estimated that the number of military personnel who have deserted from the ranks and who have stated, from their actions, that they will not fight in an illegal and immoral war for imperialist America, numbers approximately 8,000.”
“MORE than 6000 men and women have deserted from the US army since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.”
“According to the oral tradition, in the mid-eighteenth century, Peter Kerrivan and some companions jumped ship at St. John's and deserted from the British Navy.”
“One reason for its now being deserted is certainly the seven k of bad but passable road that leads to it.”
“He was a 12-year-old street urchin deserted by his mother after they moved to Cambridge,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deserted’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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The Gloaming
dragging, burnt, desert, wind, skywalk, doorway, bundle, beard, tired, bittersweet, flux, party and 55 more...
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d is for depressing!
dolorous, damaging, depressing, drab, dull, dumb, derelict, decaying, dubious, doubtful, dreadful, dangerous and 86 more...
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Chocolate Factory Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4
Vocabulary for Chapter's 1,2,3, and 4 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
draft, desperately, inventor, absurd, clever, furnace, nibble, colossal, nightcap, stammer, torture, marvelous and 2 more...
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descriptors - adjectives
lanky, propitious, courtly, resplendent, devious, errant, deserted, devilish, dilapidated, diabolical, cold, obfuscation and 81 more...
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