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deserted

v.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //dɪˈzɝtɪd// UK //dɪzˈɜːtɪd// de·sert·ed

v. empty of people and very quiet. You use this to describe a place where everyone has left and no one is around.

v. empty of people; abandoned or unoccupied. Often implies a sense of isolation or that the inhabitants have left permanently.


SIMPLE

The streets are deserted late at night.

CONTEXTUAL

After the factory closed down, the once-busy town center became completely deserted.

COMPLEX

The explorers found a deserted village deep in the valley, where the silence was broken only by the wind whistling through the empty doorways.

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Usage

Typically follows a linking verb like 'be' or 'become', or sits before the noun it modifies.

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