Synonym: abandon, forsake, leave. Antonym: fertile. Similar words: dessert, reserve, preserve, assert, insert, reservation, these, user. Meaning: [dɪ'zɜːt] 
n. arid land with little or no vegetation. v. 1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch 2. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army. adj. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.
n. arid land with little or no vegetation. v. 1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch 2. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army. adj. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate. 
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151) He could not tolerate the extremes of heat in the desert.
152) Any mechanical problems would upset our plans of driving across the desert.
153) Let's make out that we are wrecked on a desert island.
154) It is one of the rare places in the world where the desert meets the sea.
155) The wind blew in from the desert and covered everything with sand.
156) The terrorists assumed control of the plane and forced it to land in the desert.
157) The price rise caused many readers to desert the magazine.
158) It would be morally indefensible for her to desert her father now.
159) He is on a trek through the South Gobi desert.
160) The sun beat down ( on the desert sand ).
161) The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil.
162) A ribbon of road stretched ahead of us across the desert.
163) The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.
164) 'Lord of the Flies' is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
165) They went varooming all over the desert in a couple of jeeps.
166) It's a long chance to build a city in the desert.
167) Conservation of water is of great importance in desert areas.
168) All the cacti were in flower[http://Sentencedict.com], so that the desert was a riot of colour.
169) If you were cast away on a desert island, what would you miss most?
170) After a long desert journey the oxen became much petered.
171) We deflate the tyres to make it easier to cross the desert.
172) I could still see nothing but the spirals of desert dust.
173) He died in the desert like so many other luckless explorers.
174) The man lost in the desert was desperate for water.
175) Contrary to popular belief, a desert can be very cold.
176) Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island.
177) Heat waves rose off the burning hot desert sands.
178) The bones had been bleached in the desert sun.
179) The organization seeking that desert acreage?
180) Desert bighorn sheep are found mainly in rugged country.