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What does deserting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of desert
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He had heard stories of deserting conscripts from the Army crossing into the hands of the revolution.
Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south.
Workers should also refrain from deserting their worksites at this difficult time.
They are also astute at maintaining public sympathy by regularly deserting the picket lines to save lives.
At the end, the Indian heroine commits suicide by biting a poisonous datura flower because her British lover is deserting her.
Akin to rats deserting a sinking ship, four survivors flee out of the major cities to a secluded, out-of-the-way shopping mall.

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