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disertare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to desert
  2. (transitive) to abandon, leave, walk out on
  3. (intransitive) to desert
  4. (literary, transitive) to devastate, to spoil, to destroy
  5. (literary, transitive) to depopulate
  6. (literary, transitive) to impoverish

Frequency

32k
Hyphenated as
di‧ser‧tà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/di.zerˈta.re/
Etymology

From a Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *dēsertāre, from Latin dēsertus, perfect passive participle of dēserō (“to forsake, abandon”).

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