Deserter synonyms

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renegade
Renegade is defined as someone who rejects one religion or group for another.
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escapee
Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.
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refugee
A person who flees from home or country to seek refuge elsewhere, as in a time of war or of political or religious persecution
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truant
A person who neglects his or her work or duties
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defector
One who defects.
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derelict
Land left dry by a permanent recession of the water line.
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delinquent
A delinquent person; esp., a juvenile delinquent
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apostate
One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.
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lawbreaker
One who breaks (violates) the law, a criminal.
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traitor
The definition of a traitor is someone who betrays a country, cause or a friend.
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backslider
A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
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recreant
(Archaic) A coward.
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slacker
The definition of a slacker is an unmotivated person who doesn't work very hard or who doesn't have a lot of ambition.
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shirker
One who shirks a duty or responsibility.
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rat
A worker who is a scab
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bolter
A horse given to bolting.
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runagate
A person who drifts or wanders about; vagabond
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turncoat
A person who goes over to the opposite side or party; traitor
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approach (related)
The method used in dealing with or accomplishing:
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ratter
One that catches or kills rats:
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soldier (related)
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fugitive (related)
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brigand (related)
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militiaman (related)
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mutineer (related)
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internee (related)
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pows (related)
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prisoners-of-war (related)
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runaway
A minor who has fled his or her home or family
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Find another word for deserter. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for deserter, like: renegade, escapee, refugee, truant, defector, derelict, delinquent, apostate, lawbreaker, betrayer and traitor.
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Deserter Sentence Examples

  • Toward dawn, Count Orlov-Denisov, who had dozed off, was awakened by a deserter from the French army being brought to him.

  • We all profess the Christian law of forgiveness of injuries and love of our neighbors, the law in honor of which we have built in Moscow forty times forty churches--but yesterday a deserter was knouted to death and a minister of that same law of love and forgiveness, a priest, gave the soldier a cross to kiss before his execution.

  • A deserter announced his arrival to Vespasian, who rejoiced (Josephus says) that the cleverest of his enemies had thus voluntarily imprisoned himself.

  • 2 His having been selected for such a commission shows that he was not yet regarded as a deserter from the Whigs, although the ill success of his representations probably helped to make him one.

  • A revival of Irredentism in connection with the execution of an Austrian deserter named Oberdank, who after escaping into Italy endeavoured to return to Austria with explosive bombs in his possession, and the cordial references to France made by Depretis at Stradella (8th October 1882), prevented the French government from suspecting the existence of the alliance, or from ceasing to strive after a Franco-Italian understanding.

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