Crossword-Solution: DESERT 6 letters, 367 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Desert n. That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly
due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward;
merit.
Desert n. A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of
supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are
destitute and vegetation.
Desert n. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population,
but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary
place.
Desert a. Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or
cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as,
they landed on a desert island.
Desert v. t. To leave (especially something which one should stay by
and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; --
implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert
a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
Desert v. t. To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in
violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert
one's colors.
Desert v. i. To abandon a service without leave; to quit military
service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to
abscond.

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"New York is the great stone ___": Israel Zangwill 1 answer
"Somewhere on a ___ highway, she rides a Harley Davidson" 1 answer
"The Sheik" setting 1 answer
"The ___ Song": Romberg 1 answer
A dry barren region 1 answer
About 25% of California 1 answer
An arid region with little or no vegetation 1 answer
Antarctica, for example 1 answer
Antarctica, for one 1 answer
Ariz.'s Painted ___ 1 answer
Arizona scene. 1 answer
Arizona's is painted 1 answer
Atacama, e.g. 1 answer
Atacama, for one 1 answer
Australia's Gibson, e.g. 1 answer
Bail out on 1 answer
Baja 1 answer
Baluchistan 1 answer
Be a front runner? 1 answer
Become a permanent AWOL 1 answer
Bedouin milieu 1 answer
Black Rock in Nevada. 1 answer
Black Rock, for one. 1 answer
CHANGE front 1 answer
Cactus habitat 1 answer
Camel country 1 answer
Caravan setting 1 answer
Climate for Utah's "Mighty Five" national parks 1 answer
Climate for much of Nevada 1 answer
Common chuckwalla habitat 1 answer
Death Valley, for example 1 answer
Dennis DeYoung "___ Moon" 1 answer
Dry zone 1 answer
Dry, sandy biome 1 answer
Environment of Arrakis, in "Dune" 1 answer
Food ___ (place where affordable food is hard to come by) 1 answer
Gila monster s home 1 answer
Gila monster's habitat 1 answer
Gila monster's home 1 answer
Go AWOL permanently 1 answer
Go out of service? 1 answer
Gobi or Atacama 1 answer
Gobi or Atacama, for example 1 answer
Gobi or Mohave 1 answer
Gobi or Mojave 1 answer
Gobi or Negev 1 answer
Gobi or Painted 1 answer
Gobi or Sahara 1 answer
Gobi or Taklamakan 1 answer
Gobi, e.g. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
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Sentences with DESERT (5)

What a lesson! The nest must have fallen into the water, but would the mother desert her eggs? No.” There was a break in his voice, as if for a moment he recalled innocent days when—but he brushed away this weakness with his hook.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
But say, What meant that caution joind, _If ye be found obedient?_ can wee want obedience then To him, or possibly his love desert Who formd us from the dust, and plac’d us here Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend? To whom the Angel.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
But I can’t think that you, who refuse me a little matter now, will by and by confer on me a greater benefit.” Truth and the Traveler A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Alexandra often said that if her mother were cast upon a desert island, she would thank God for her deliverance, make a garden, and find something to preserve.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Since 1973, when petroleum prices shot up, the UAE has undergone a profound transformation from an impoverished region of small desert principalities to a modern state with a high standard of living.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Quotes with DESERT (3)

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretche…
Blaise Pascal
I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.
Luci Shaw
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Appears in: AARP, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 274 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).