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desertion::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abandonment, defection |
| Type of | withdrawal |
| Has types | deviationism, absence without leave, decampment, abscondment, unauthorized absence |
| Derivation | desert |
desertion::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abandonment, forsaking |
| Type of | rejection |
| Has types | exposure, tergiversation, apostasy, bolt |
| Derivation | desert |
Examples of desertion
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The army had been thinned by desertion and was enervated by long ill-discipline.
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He was the only US or British soldier executed for desertion during the conflict.
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The woman was prosecuted for manslaughter and desertion of a child, Jackley said.
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The Coalition Government fell in 1965, due to the desertion of several members.
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A Russian military court convicted him in absentia for high treason and desertion.
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Cornwell uses this backstory, adding the desertion of Dodd's entire sepoy company.
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Hering is wanted by the Marine Corps for desertion and will face a military court.
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This perception can be better understood by viewing desertion data for Mexico.
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Both sons were left rudderless by Mandela's desertion of Evelyn, their mother.
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- Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"
- Abandonment: the act of giving something up
- (deserted) abandoned: forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
- In military terminology, desertion is the abandonment of a "duty" or post without permission and is done with the intention of not returning. The term AWOL is an acronym for "Absence Without Official Leave" and can refer to either desertion or a temporary absence.
- Desertion is a 2005 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
- (deserted) empty; not lived in, or having few or no people
- One of several grounds for a fault divorce. Most states require the plaintiff to prove several of the following factors: 1) the defendant left the marital home for over one year; 2) the parties failed to agree to such departure; 3) the party who left failed to pay support; and 4) the reason for ...
- The abandoment of one spouse by the other; the continued absence of one spouse from cohabitation with the other; a prolonged separation between spouses. This is an old ground of divorce which has been replaced in the modern Divorce Act with simple separation for a period of at least one year. ...
- (law), in the law of domestic relations, abandonment or renunciation of marital relations and obligations by either spouse, with intent not to resume relations, and without the consent or wrongful conduct of the other. In most of the U.S., willful desertion is a legal cause for divorce. ...
