deserted
adjective
[ dɪˈzəːtɪd ]
• (of a place) empty of people.
• "deserted beaches of soft sand"
desert
verb
• abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous.
• "we feel our public representatives have deserted us"
Similar:
abandon,
leave,
give up,
cast off,
turn one's back on,
throw over,
betray,
jilt,
break (up) with,
neglect,
shun,
leave high and dry,
leave in the lurch,
leave behind,
strand,
leave stranded,
maroon,
relinquish,
renounce,
walk/run out on,
rat on,
drop,
dump,
ditch,
give someone the push,
give someone the big E,
bin off,
forsake,
renege on,
repudiate,
forswear,
wash one's hands of,
have no more truck with,
have done with,
abjure,
disavow,
apostatize,
recant,
disprofess,
abandoned,
forsaken,
cast off/aside,
thrown over,
betrayed,
jilted,
shunned,
neglected,
stranded,
marooned,
relinquished,
renounced,
forlorn,
bereft,
dumped,
ditched,
dropped,
Opposite:
stand by,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French deserter, from late Latin desertare, from Latin desertus ‘left waste’ (see desert2).
