Associations to the word «Desertion»
Noun
- Loss
- Fatigue
- Disease
- Misery
- Illness
- Kinsman
- Disappearance
- Chevalier
- Firing
- Mate
- Particular
- Lash
- Tenderness
- Amnesty
- Defeat
- Death
- Ground
- Recruit
- Skirmish
- Wife
- Grief
- Convict
- Departure
- Detachment
- Emigration
- Volunteer
- Officer
- Spite
- Failing
- Caesar
- Distress
- War
- Circumstance
- Pay
- Antoine
- Eddie
- Shame
- Decree
- Fraud
- Sorrow
- Bourbon
- Agony
- Conduct
- Fate
- Peasant
- Taking
- Discretion
- Poverty
- Chaplain
- Bitterness
- Cavalry
- Comte
- Berg
- Rebel
- Battle
- Desert
- Plea
- Court
- Offspring
- Affection
- Bulk
- Wound
- Pension
- Consequence
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
DESERTION, noun. The act of deserting.
Dictionary definition
DESERTION, noun. Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless".
DESERTION, noun. The act of giving something up.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.