desert

[1]	abandon , forsake , desolate
[2]	forsake , defect , leave , abandon , jilt , throw over , maroon , strand , leave to twist (slowly) in the wind , (Colloq) run/walk out on , leave flat/in the lurch , leave high and dry
[3]	abscond , quit , run away (from) , defect , abandon , (Military) (Slang) go over the hill

[1]	waste , wilderness , wasteland , dust bowl

adj.

[1]	barren , desolate , uninhabited , unpeopled , lonely , deserted , arid , bare , vacant , empty , wild , uncultivated