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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deserted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deserted/empty (=with no one on it)
▪ We took a boat to a deserted beach.
empty/deserted (=with no people)
▪ As he walked home, the street was deserted.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
beach
▪ Take care not to swim out too far, particularly on deserted beaches.
▪ The sunset over a deserted beach.
▪ She had bathed naked from a deserted beach with this man, and lain with him afterwards among sand-dunes.
▪ When it was sunny we picnicked among the forest's ponies and searched for fossils on deserted beaches.
▪ Like Kos, Rhodes has many fine, deserted beaches but it's best getting there by car.
street
▪ We deployed on to the cold, deserted streets, two teams from the back gate and one from the front.
▪ We only drove as far as a deserted street by the railroad tracks in our hometown so we could make out.
▪ No, this technique is only to be used when travelling home alone, late at night, through fairly deserted streets.
▪ We walked up the deserted street with me breathing deeply and Jamie holding me by one elbow.
▪ The saucer drops between the towers, flies low over strangely deserted streets and comes suddenly to a grinding halt.
▪ On every deserted street gutted houses sagged open, their contents indecently exposed to view.
▪ Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy, almost deserted street.
▪ One evening, towards midnight, I was walking back to my hotel from Dana's place along a deserted street.
village
▪ Tatiana Rovkatch, 12, remembers the shock of seeing pictures of the deserted villages around the plant.
▪ He walked home through the quiet and at this hour deserted village.
▪ He led Maggie down the mountain to the deserted village and headed south-west, following the river bank.
▪ These later uses for deserted village sites need to be appreciated if the full landscape story is to be understood.
▪ From both deserted village sites and surviving nucleated settlements, a very complex picture of change and development is beginning to emerge.
▪ One day last week we stopped in a deserted village and the guerrillas led me to where lunch was being prepared.
▪ Like most deserted villages Great Stretton was always on the small side, but in 1563 it still contained fifteen families.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a deserted street corner
▪ The beach was deserted and unsafe for bathing according to the guidebook.
▪ Thirty years later, the steel mill town stands completely deserted.
▪ We passed through several deserted villages whose inhabitants had fled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For a moment he hesitated, nervous of breaking the strange stillness of the deserted landscape.
▪ I wondered, driving round the utterly deserted town.
▪ It was only in such oblique ways that he referred to his state of deserted, now divorced, husband.
▪ Not a wet, cold, grey and grizzly day on a lonely and deserted stretch of coast at Birkenhead.
▪ On one side was a deserted lorry park.
▪ So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites.
▪ Take care not to swim out too far, particularly on deserted beaches.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deserted

deserted \deserted\ adj.

  1. having no residents; as, deserted villages.

    Syn: uninhabited.

  2. no longer used by people.

    Syn: abandoned, derelict.

  3. remote from civilization; as, the victim was lured to a deserted spot.

  4. being left by another without support or assistance; left in the lurch; -- of people; as, deserted wives and children.

    Note: In this sense, the label implies some level of dependence of the person(s) being deserted on those deserting them.

Wiktionary
deserted

  1. 1 abandoned 2 desolate v

  2. (en-past of: desert)

WordNet
deserted

  1. adj. left desolate or empty; "an abandoned child"; "their deserted wives and children"; "an abandoned shack"; "deserted villages" [syn: abandoned]

  2. remote from civilization; "the victim was lured to a deserted spot"

Wikipedia
Deserted

Deserted may refer to:

  • Desertion, the act of abandoning or withdrawing support from an entity to which one has given. This most commonly refers to a military desertion.
  • "Deserted", a song by Blind Melon from their 1992 album Blind Melon

Usage examples of "deserted".

In a few days the English cannon had been placed in a circle round the fort, and set such strange music humming in the ears of the besieged that the Acadian farmers deserted and the priest nervously thought of flight.

There were only two obvious Anglo riders in the nearly deserted establishment.

Don Gados tells of coming upon a deserted Auca hut, and finding there a life sized human figure carved of balsa wood.

Devonshire militia had partly deserted and partly been defeated at Axminster that very morning.

He was the last to look out into the streets and across the little Plaza del Ayuntamiento, which was deserted and looked peaceful enough in the light of a waning moon.

Streets became deserted since Jews caught walking would be seized and forced to work at meaningless, backbreaking tasks like digging ditches or filling puddles of water with sand.

She went through the nearly deserted benchwork area to the small lab she occupied when not inside the hot lab, put down her coat, and activated her own computer terminal.

When Lord George Bentinck first threw himself into the breach, he was influenced only by a feeling of indignation at the manner in which he thought the Conservative party had been trifled with by the government and Lord Stanley, his personal friend and political leader, deserted by a majority of the cabinet.

The Bessarabian bank was deserted, save for two women kneeling on the gangway of the left-hand mill, washing clothes.

Then he turned to retrace his steps, and found the blank wall blanker and more deserted than ever, while the foreground was void of all trace of Olivia.

When they arrived, it was deserted except for the stage-line owner, Bill Fieldman, an ex-cowpoke who had been thrown by way too many broncs and who walked with a pronounced limp.

At any rate, the punishment, if it really took place, did not prove very effectual, for some fifty Brunswickers deserted in the course of the next five months, and the loss of men from desertion during the journey to Virginia was heavy.

Meantime, Cabeza got in the car and drove it up a deserted side street.

She could sense the emptiness around her, the deserted cabins, the lack of distant bustle.

The Club Cadiz was deserted, save for a few attendants who were loitering about among the tables.