This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

n. An outlaw; a rebel.

adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a renegade; traitorous.

verb-intransitive. To become a deserter or an outlaw.

n. An outlaw or rebel.

n. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.

n. An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.

n. One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.

n. A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

n. An apostate from a religious faith.

n. One who deserts to an enemy; one who deserts his party and joins another; a deserter.

n. Synonyms Neophyte, Proselyte., etc. (see convert), backslider, turncoat.

n. Traitor, runaway.

adj. having deserted a cause or principle

n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

v. break with established customs

n. someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw

"While the upsurge could be temporary -- coinciding with efforts by Iraqi-government officials to crack down on what they call renegade militias -- it could also represent a new threat to fragile security gains made recently by U.S. forces."

disloyal   

quitter    protest    resist    dissent    defector    deserter   

deserter    tergiversant    apostate    changeling    traitor    desert    apostatize   

rogue    swindler    traitor    outlaw    heretic    rebel    redheaded    blackguard    interloper    rascal