Desertion synonyms
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The act of abandoning a person with the intent of terminating the duties or him or her. For example, the intentional failure by a parent to communicate with or to provide financial or other support to his children. See also desertion.
The ability to fly:
The state of having escaped
The act of leaving.
(Proper) The withdrawal of the Southern states from the federal Union at the start of the Civil War
A failing or failure
An increase in land caused by the recession of sea, river, or other body of water formerly covering it. Ownership is a function of how rapidly the water receded. See also reliction.
The act or an instance of renouncing:
disavowing
disavowal
A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (someone).
Abandonment of one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.
The act or process of withdrawing, as:
The act of keeping away from, escaping, evading, or preventing.
A means of evading; a subterfuge.
elusion
The act or an instance of eluding or escaping; evasion.
The refusal, especially by public authorities, to acknowledge a contract or debt.
Abandonment of a right or thing. See also abstention. Abandonment of a right or thing. See also abstention.
Withdrawal from one's occupation or position, especially upon reaching a certain age.
The act of resigning
A court order or other document establishing such a dissolution.
willful abandonment
An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense
falling away
decamping
running out on
going back on
going AWOL
loyalty (antonym)
cooperation (antonym)
constancy (antonym)
retreat (related)
help (antonym)
aid (antonym)
assistance (antonym)
staying (antonym)
keep (related)
defenselessness
The characteristic of being defenseless; vulnerability.
fatherlessness
The state or quality of being fatherless.
motherlessness
The state or condition of being motherless.
Find another word for desertion. In this page you can discover 45 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for desertion, like: abandonment, flight, escape, departure, leaving, secession, defection, dereliction, renunciation, disavowing and disavowal.