Desertions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DESERTIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DESERTION, the act of deserting
• the action of deserting a person, cause, or organization
• the action of illegally leaving the armed forces
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act of deserting; the abandonment without consent or legal justification of a person, post, or relationship and the associated duties and obligations

Words related to DESERTIONS

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How to use DESERTIONS in a sentence

• Of these there has been a continual waste from the outset by sickness, desertions, capture, and the casualties of war.
• Reports of wholesale desertions of Slavs from the Austrian army were received daily and probably had considerable foundation in fact.
• What charming stanzas in imitation of Victor Hugo might Theodore de Banville and Albert Glatigny write on the successive desertions of the members of the Commune.
• The desertions gave not only the captain, but his great support and auxiliary, the serjeant, the gravest apprehensions.
• The last number was enough to disquiet the crusaders, already much reduced by so many marches, battles, sufferings, and desertions.
• Our company had a particularly bad record on desertions.
• Gillem now became demoralized, and desertions were by the wholesale.
• Desertions from the Republican ranks at the South, in consequence thereof, became more rapid than had been the accessions between 1872 and 1875.
• In meeting the case of desertions, caused by the heedlessness and weakness of seamen, Nelson became more vague.
• The only phase of the selective draft in which the Negro seemed to be discredited in comparison with his white brother, was in the matter of desertions.
• Everyone knows now that many, yes, the bulk of the reported desertions among both whites and blacks, were not desertions at all.
• I have just received a letter from Colonel Bland, containing information of numerous desertions from the Convention troops, not less than four hundred in the last fortnight.
• The subsequent desertions of your militia have taken away the necessity of answering the question, how they shall be armed.
• Were it possible to block up the river, a little time would suffice to reduce them by want and desertions, and would be more sure in its event than an attempt by storm.
• His conjugal life, like everything else he engaged in, proved a failure and was characterized by repeated desertions.
• Again an epidemic of desertions broke out and ten thousand men were lost in a single month.
• Desertions became frequent, no new royalist troops arrived, and nothing was heard of the forces that had been promised from Jersey, the Elbe, and the English coast.
• But the weather was bitter, the snow lay thick in the passes, sentinels were frozen at the outposts, and a curious stream of desertions began.
• Desertions were taking place in a wholesale manner, and in several instances Colonels marched off with their entire commands and re-crossed the line.
• Desertions were now frequent, and they had become a disorganized mob rather than a disciplined army.
• The Turkish rations, on the other hand, were scanty and poor, with the result that morale was low, discomfort rife, and desertions frequent.
• In two months the battalion at Windsor was reduced fifteen per cent, by desertions alone.
• But as the days slipped by, the Americans grew stronger, while the British had been weakened by wholesale desertions.
• They had since that date been weakened by desertions, but to what extent we can only conjecture.
• Between there and Philadelphia he had lost at least two thousand men by desertions in addition to nearly five hundred who fell at Monmouth.
• At the time the army was turned over to me desertions were at the rate of about two hundred a day.
• It is believed that desertions among his followers prevented further progress and that, in the winter of 1669-1670, La Salle retraced his steps to the lakes.
• That the army, which had been diminished by desertions and defeats, should be recruited by Spanish soldiers.
• Many desertions had already occurred, ostensibly because of lack of food and raiment.
• Desertions in his command have become frequent, and he recommends that those who shall withstand the strong temptation and remain faithful should be rewarded.
• There were few desertions, and they always settled down in the port that they served their time from.
• The Prince would fain have marched on England, but his force was thinned by desertions, and English reinforcements would have been landed in his rear.
• Most wonderful man! What conflicts, what depressions, desertions, strength, advancement, victories, within thy torn bosom! I cannot express what I think when I think of thee.
• To check further desertions and to restore confidence, was the aim of the party whips.
• There are daily desertions from their ranks, but always new-comers enough to fill the gaps.

Similar words containing SERTION without suffix s and without prefix de

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