deserting in English

verb

1

abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous.

he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England

synonyms: abandon, leave, turn one's back on, throw over, jilt, break up with, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave behind, strand, walk out on, run out on, drop, dump, ditch, forsake, renounce, repudiate, relinquish, wash one's hands of, abandon, turn one's back on, betray, disavow, abjure, forsake

verb

abandon, leave, turn one's back on, throw over, jilt, break up with, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave behind, strand, walk out on, run out on, drop, dump, ditch, forsake
renounce, repudiate, relinquish, wash one's hands of, abandon, turn one's back on, betray, disavow, abjure, forsake
abscond, defect, run away, make off, decamp, flee, turn tail, take French leave, depart, quit, jump ship, go AWOL
defect
abandon, forsake, desolate

Use "deserting" in a sentence

1. The soldier was disciplined for deserting his post.

2. He was pained to see many youngsters deserting kibbutz life.

3. Spaniards are worried about German investors deserting Spain for Eastern Europe.

4. He was trying to punish her for deserting him all those years ago.

5. As he went through the revolving doors he felt his courage deserting him.

6. Awol definition, away from military duties without permission, but without the intention of deserting

7. The Khmer Rouge kept the government forces at bay until 1996, when troops started deserting.

8. The thought of deserting his weaker and more pitiable companions never perhaps occurred to him.

9. Planes shot down , tanks destroyed , munitions exhausted , soldiers deserting , and land lost are rarely decisive .

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11. Thus, when some of the eastern allies and mercenaries started deserting, Brutus was forced to attack on the afternoon of October 23.

12. Pressed men were militarily unreliable; regiments with large numbers of such men were deployed to garrisons such as Gibraltar or the West Indies, purely to increase the difficulty in successfully deserting.

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14. ’Tis western Tagus’ shores, ’tis Punic Barcelona that does me hurt,’tis the Pyrenees whose snowy crests join sea to sea, thou thyself also dost me hurt, thou who Abandonest thy friends without a cause, deserting thy town and, perchance, the native fashion of thy dress and speech, thou who now dwellest among new friends, whom the extent