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Desert?
Dessert is a homophone for desert, when "desert" means to abandon. The other homograph of "desert," meaning a dry place, doesn't have a homophone.
Abandon can be used as a noun that means a desert or a forsake. So you could say, "I walked for what felt like miles in the abandon, coming across only cacti and tumbleweed."
The word that means to abandon or leave alone by death is "forsake."
to maroon
The word "desert" comes from the Latin deserere, meaning to abandon or forsake, much like the landscape of the desert forsakes wildlife and is generally abandoned.
in latin the word desertus means "to leave, abandon, foresake," traditionally deserts where empty places where the week and criminals were exiled to - they were left, forsaken and abandoned
You don't. To desert is to abandon your obligation, most commonly an obligation to military service.
Disregard, abandon, desert; these are all good substitutions for the term neglect.
withdraw, leave, stop, surrender, discard, discontinue, abdicate, relinquish, desert
The word 'Sahara' means desert.
The adjective form of the word "abandon" is - abandoned. It is used thus : "Henry was an abandoned child" - where the word means 'forsaken' or "The party was wild and abandoned" - where the word means 'uninhibited' or "The abandoned caste dominated the hill" - where it means 'deserted'.