- desertion
- n1. abandonment, forsaking, defection, betrayal; heresy, apostasy, recreance, recreancy; neglect, negligence, dereliction.2. flight, escape, evasion, elusion; departure, decampment, evacuation.3. relinquishment, abnegation, resignation, abdication, Archaic. demission; secession, withdrawal, retirement; renunciation, disavowal, recantation, denial.4. desolation, desertedness, deprivation, bereavement; solitude, isolation, loneliness; separation, separateness, alienation, estrangement.5.(usu. in reference to military duty) running away or off; absence without leave; going AWOL.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.