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deserter

[ dih-zur-ter ]

noun

  1. a soldier or draftee who leaves or runs away from service or duty with the intention of never returning:

    Deserters from the rebel army tell of low morale among its remaining fighters.

  2. a person who fails to uphold a cause or who abandons someone else, especially in violation of a promise or obligation:

    Some of those remaining in the home country view emigrants living abroad as deserters from their mother culture.

    A family deserter is one who can but will not support a spouse or dependents.



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  • pre·de·sert·er noun

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The last deserter to be executed had been during the Civil War.

Somebody on Twitter made a big deal out of the fact that I put the word “deserter” in quotes.

People can believe he is a deserter all they want, and maybe he is.

Republicans are hitting the pipe big time on the ‘deserter’—and their creepy bottom line is that he should have been left to die.

And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.

The wife must live with him, and a refusal on her part to live in the home provided by him would constitute her a deserter.

As a line beneath the title explains, the tale concerns a matrimonial deserter.

When the captain was told what had taken place, he saw that the British were trying to make trouble about the Irish deserter.

For that very night a British sailor came on board the Constitution, who said he was a deserter from the Havana.

A deserter piloted the detachment safely over the torpedoes which had been planted in front of them.

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