deserter

noun

de·sert·er di-ˈzər-tər

plural deserters

Synonyms of deserter next

: a person who deserts

… the deserter of his father in his last days, betrayer of his brother in his captivity …—

Amy Kelly

especially : a member of a military force who abandons service without leave

a wartime deserter

But now that Anderson has been AWOL for more than 30 days, he is known in the U.S. military as a deserter, facing the possibility of years in jail. —

Daniel Eisenberg

At a prison camp for German army deserters, Herold ordered the execution of more than 100 soldiers. —

Michael Phillips

Examples of deserter in a Sentence

we had orders to find and capture the deserters before they could reveal our location

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Go way back to President Lincoln, who made hard decisions himself about deserters from the Army, things like that. —

CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024 Abraham Lincoln: Issued clemency to thousands of individuals, including Confederate deserters, during the Civil War. —

Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Dec. 2024 The opposition needs just three more deserters from the party to pass the bill. —

Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024 In 1782, they were tasked with apprehending Hessian deserters, earning a reward of two guineas for each one recovered, whether dead or alive. —

Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for deserter