déserta
Past historic il/elle conjugation of déserter.

déserter

La moitié déserta pour aller chercher de l'or.
Half of them deserted to go look for gold.
Elles étaient profondément bouleversées, mais aucune ne déserta.
They were tremendously upset, but none of them deserted.
Alexeïev, encore moins enclin à l'optimisme, déserta bientôt ce navire en perdition.
Alexeiev, still less inclined to optimism, soon abandoned the rotten ship.
À l’instar des serpents terrestres d’un âge antérieur qui s’étaient voués à la vie marine, une tribu entière de mammifères placentaires déserta alors la terre pour établir sa résidence dans les océans.
Like the land serpents of a previous age which betook themselves to the seas, now a whole tribe of placental mammals deserted the land and took up their residence in the oceans.
P.696 - §2 À l'instar des serpents terrestres d'un âge antérieur qui s'étaient voués à la vie marine, une tribu entière de mammifères placentaires déserta alors la terre pour établir sa résidence dans les océans.
Like the land serpents of a previous age which betook themselves to the seas, now a whole tribe of placental mammals deserted the land and took up their residence in the oceans.
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