Desertion

What do we mean by desertion?

The act or an instance of deserting. noun

The state of being deserted. noun

Willful abandonment of a spouse or child owed a duty of support. noun

The willful, permanent separation of one spouse from the other without acceptable cause or the other's consent, considered as a ground for divorce. noun

The act of forsaking or abandoning, as a party, a friend, a cause, or the post of duty; the act of quitting without leave, and with an intention not to return. noun

The state of being deserted or forsaken. noun

The state of being forsaken by God; spiritual despondency. noun

In law, a wilful abandonment of an employment or a duty, in violation of a legal or moral obligation. Bigelow, Ch. J. noun

In botany Same as lipoxeny. noun

The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. noun

The state of being forsaken; desolation. noun

Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency. noun

The act of deserting. noun

Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility noun

The act of giving something up noun

The act of deserting.

Words that are spelled similarly to desertion:
desertion, assertion, deception, exertion, detention, desperation, desecration, detection, dejection, resection, insertion, defection, deletion, desition, desorption, despection, disection, desertic, demersion, exsertion, detersion, deserting, deaeration, detortion, decerption, desertions, deleation, deserto, dejeration, desertify.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word desertion:
cowardice, insubordination, adultery, mutiny, conscription, deserted, divorce, cruelty, treason, spouse, morale, abandonment, mercenaries, punished, parental, imprisonment, executed, firing, soldiers, punishment, sentence, separation, tribunal, sentences, confederate, rates, garrison, guilty, sailors, convicted, custody, decree, discharge, enemy, retreat, soldier, discipline, militia, offense, illness, mate, condemned, execution, martial, enlisted, squad, desert, prison, allies, army, armies, crimes, commanding, charges, grounds, ranks, duty, problem, troops, rebellion, absence, armed, military, officers, arrest, granted, civilian, severe, infantry, men.

Words that rhyme with desertion:
assertion, coercion, exertion, insertion, tertian, cistercian, mershon, physical exertion, reassertion, gershon, hersh in, hirsch in, inertia in, kirsch in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe desertion:
wilful, such, wholesale, general, sudden, malicious, apparent, willful, mass, cowardly, total, constructive, complete, cruel, treacherous, final, subsequent, utter, temporary, military, shameful, actual, widespread, spiritual, blank, frequent, alleged, voluntary, abrupt, male, absolute, heartless, massive, unexpected, simple, deliberate, gradual, scale, partial, family, open, former, parental, immediate, pusillanimous, encouraging, universal, intended, consequent, divine, extensive, pretended, continual, outright, ultimate, criminal, permanent, infamous, confederate, double, faithless, wartime, impending, eventual, mere, hasty, timely, unexplained, strange, marital, virtual, unkind, wife, melancholy.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective desertion:
condition.

Words that sound like desertion:
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