deserts
USDEZ-urts/ˈdɛzɚts/UKDEZ-uhts/ˈdɛzəts/
As a verbdi-ZURTS
- 1Plural of desert. Use this form when talking about more than one dry, sandy region.
Camels can live in hot deserts for days without water.
Many deserts get almost no rain for the whole year.
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- 2Third-person singular present of desert. Use it when one person or thing leaves something behind.
He always deserts his team when the work gets hard.
She never deserts the people she has promised to help.
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deserts is a form of desert
desert, noun: A large area of very dry land where little rain falls and few plants grow. Full entry
- Forms
- desertdeserts plural
- Spelling
- desert → deserts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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