# deserted

Pronunciation: say "di-ZUR-tid" US /dəˈzɜɹtəd/, UK /dɪˈzɜː(ɹ)tɪd/

## Adjective

1. Empty of people, especially because everyone has left or abandoned the place.
   - Simple: Empty because all the people have left or gone away.
   - _By midnight the town square was completely deserted._
   - _They wandered through the deserted factory, their footsteps echoing off the walls._
2. Bleak and barren, giving a strong feeling of gloomy emptiness.
   - Simple: Bare and empty, with a cold, sad feeling.
   - _The deserted, frozen tundra offered no shelter or comfort for miles._
   - _Her apartment felt deserted and dreary in the days after he left._

## Verb

3. Simple past and past participle of desert. — simple past and past participle of desert
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of desert. Use this form when the leaving already happened.
   - _Many residents deserted the city as the floodwaters kept rising._
   - _The building had been deserted by its last tenants years earlier._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/deserted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).