deserted

verb
/dɪˈzɜː(ɹ)tɪd/UK/dəˈzɜɹtəd/

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of desert

  2. Abandoned, without people.

    • Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.
    • On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
  3. desolate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at deserted. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01deserted02abandoned03residents04resident05hospital06floors07floor08desert09desolate

A definitional loop anchored at deserted. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at deserted

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA