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Antonyms for deserts

Grammar : Noun
Spell : dez-ert
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛz ərt

Definition of deserts

Origin :
  • "to leave one's duty," late 14c., from Old French deserter (12c.) "leave," literally "undo or sever connection," from Late Latin desertare, frequentative of Latin deserere "to abandon, to leave, forsake, give up, leave in the lurch," from de- "undo" (see de-) + serere "join together, put in a row" (see series). Military sense is first recorded 1640s. Related: Deserted; deserting.
  • noun what is due one
Example sentences :
  • That book had nothing to do with Egyptian deserts; but any desert will do for Monny.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • However that might be, he had escaped his deserts; so much the worse.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • Fens, like deserts, are large things very apt to be mislaid.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • All may not rise equally, yet each, on the whole, very much according to his deserts.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • We have been rewarded beyond our deserts, and such reward is shameful.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • Indeed if I were treated according to my deserts, you couldn't do enough for me.'
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • Not I alone, but the cities and the deserts of Syria and Arabia, missed my loving friend.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • I do not hesitate to say that if you had your deserts you would be in the Penitentiary.
  • Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
  • He who deserts his faith may well forget that his birth was noble.
  • Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
  • It was a caprice that took me, and it is a caprice that deserts me.
  • Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever

Synonyms for deserts

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