Desert and Open

Desert

Desert noun - Land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops.

Usage example: we were lost in the desert for days without food

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Open and desert are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Open" instead the word "Desert" as an adjective or a noun or a verb.

Open noun - That part of the physical world that is removed from human habitation.

Usage example: a daguerreotype of a cowboy whose face is roughened from a hard life in the open

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Desert and open are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Desert" instead the word "Open" as an adjective or a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: opening, openness, opened, opener

point	desert point	open point
cage	desert cage	open cage

I saw a pack of cigarettes laying out in the open, on the ice in the arctic desert.

Source: Video Game / Commandos
For 3 days and 3 nights we marched over open country, marching over mountains, marching under streams, from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara desert.

Source: Now You Tell Me
It had blown the engine block open, so they took it out into the desert to be crushed under a Chieftan MBT.

Source: The Alleged Car

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