1. Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
   - abandonment, defection 
2. The act of giving something up
   - abandonment, forsaking

Derived forms: desertions

See also: desert

Type of: rejection, withdrawal

Encyclopedia: Desertion

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• auxiliary verb
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