- desertion
- I(Roget's IV) n.Syn. abandonment, flight, escape, departure, leaving, secession, defection, dereliction, renunciation, disavowing, disavowal, disaffection, apostasy, withdrawal, avoidance, evasion, elusion, truancy, repudiation, relinquishment, retirement, resignation, divorce, willful abandonment, abrogation, backsliding, recreancy, falling away, forsaking, decamping, running out on*, going back on*, going AWOL*; see also retreat 1 .Ant. loyalty*, cooperation, constancy.II(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.abandonment, flight, defection, turning one's back on, forsaking, *washing hands of, resignation.III(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The act of forsaking: abandonment. See KEEP.
English dictionary for students. 2013.