deserting

Verb

Present participle of desert.

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Meanwhile, during the negotiations, the queen's troops had been deserting; a surrender became inevitable, and Bothwell returned to Dunbar, parting from Mary for ever.
His acceptance displeased some of his former political associates, and he was accused of "deserting his party."
It was in vain that the popes sought to gather a new Crusade for its recovery; Pius II., who had vowed to join the crusade in person, only reached Ancona in 1464 to find the crusaders deserting and to die.
Mr Kruger, deserting his countrymen, left for Europe in a Dutch man-of-war, and General Buller sailed for Europe.
Of Castile at Salvaterra, deserting his English allies, who retaliated by ravaging part of his territory.

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