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n. The lack of something necessary or desirable for completion or perfection; a deficiency: a visual defect.

n. An imperfection that causes inadequacy or failure; a shortcoming. See Synonyms at blemish.

verb-intransitive. To disown allegiance to one's country and take up residence in another: a Soviet citizen who defected to Israel.

verb-intransitive. To abandon a position or association, often to join an opposing group: defected from the party over the issue of free trade.

n. A fault or malfunction.

v. To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty.

n. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

n. Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish

verb-intransitive. To fail; to become deficient.

verb-intransitive. to abandon one country or faction, and join another.

v. To injure; to damage.

n. Want or lack of anything; especially, the lack of something which is essential to perfection or completeness; a fault; a blemish; an imperfection: as, a defect in timber; a defect in the organs of hearing or seeing; a defect of memory or judgment.

n. Synonyms Deficiency, lack, insufficiency, failure, error, flaw.

To be or become deficient; fail.

To desert; revolt.

To affect injuriously; hurt; impair; spoil.

Defective.

v. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

n. an imperfection in a bodily system

n. an imperfection in an object or machine

n. a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

n. a failing or deficiency

"Skimping here could end up costing plenty if you discover a title defect after you own the property."

defected    defecting    defectively    defects   

disadvantage   

deficient    deficit    deficiency    defective   

defector    defection   

deficiency    imperfection    blemish    fault    failing    fail    injure    damage   

Brecht    Hecht    Select    affect    bedecked    checked    collect    confect    connect    correct   

deficiency    weakness    fault    flaw    disorder    limitation    failure    injury    difficulty    peculiarity