usage: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
2. defect, desert, flee, fly, take flight
usage: desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
3. desert, leave, go forth, go away
usage: leave behind; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"