deserting
present participle ofdesert
| 单词 | deserting |
| 释义 | deserting present participle ofdesert desert verb uk/dɪˈzɜːt/us/dɪˈzɝːt/desertverb(RUN AWAY)[IorT] toleavethearmedforceswithoutpermissionand with nointentionofreturning: Soldiers who deserted and werecaughtwereshot. How manypeopledesertfromthearmyeachyear? Joining or leaving the army
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Disloyalty, betrayal & treason desertverb(LEAVE BEHIND)[T] toleavesomeone withouthelpor in adifficultsituationand not come back: He deserted hiswifeandfamilyforanother woman. [T] If aqualitydeserts you, yousuddenlyandtemporarilyloseit: All myconfidence/couragedeserted me when Iwalkedinto theexam. Departing
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Losing and loss Examplesofdesertingdeserting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It explains why notdesertingthe territory of a monarch who starts an unjust war does not make one guilty of waging unjust war oneself. From theCambridge English Corpus He serves his master and having got the woman in his house, finds herdesertinghim and claiming divorce at the instigation of a seducer. From theCambridge English Corpus Thedesertingfather has been reconfigured as a perfect, agonised other, a brotherly equal. From theCambridge English Corpus As things stand, customers and outside software developers alike aredesertingthe company. From theCambridge English Corpus In the 1890s, people weredesertingthe countryside for overpopulated cities. From theCambridge English Corpus The latter appear especially frequently, and warrants issued to answer for stopped wages seem to have been almost as common as those fordesertingservice. From theCambridge English Corpus He was arrested fordeserting, and only after some time was diagnosed with battle exhaustion and passed on to the base hospital where he began his psychiatric treatment. From theCambridge English Corpus In particular, orthographic parafoveal-on-foveal effects can now be accounted for withoutdesertingthe crucial claim that processing is to be characterised by default as involving a serial attentional switch. From theCambridge English Corpus How long was this man absent afterdesertingbefore he surrendered or was apprehended? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not the present commotion the sound of panic-stricken ratsdesertingthe flagship? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of the single-parent families are due todesertinghusbands ordesertinglovers who have jilted their wives or their partners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The numbers traced do not necessarily relate to seamen reported asdesertingduring the period. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It has also paid no attention and offered no support to the so-called cohesion countries, in which people aredesertingthe countryside in increasing numbers. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English Are they to be regarded, as some people appear to regard them, asdesertinga sinking ship? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If they aredesertingthem, what do they intend to put in their place? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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