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defect

English

  1. 🔊 a failing or deficiency
    “that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information”
  2. 🔊 an imperfection in a bodily system
    “visual defects”
  3. 🔊 an imperfection in an object or machine
    “a flaw caused the crystal to shatter”
  4. 🔊 a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
    “a facial blemish”
  5. 🔊 desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
    “If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 falencia defect
  2. 🔊 defeccionar to defect
  3. 🔊 tara defect, flaw, vice
  4. 🔊 defecto defect, fault, deficiency

Similar words

blemish mar shortcoming fault flaw desert abandon abnormality acute disease affection affliction ailment allergic disease allergy apostacize apostatize arrearage atrophy back out bacterial disease betray birth defect birthmark blackhead