Thesaurus: defect

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1. n. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
2. n. Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
3. v. i. To fail; to become deficient.
4. v. t. To injure; to damage.
5. n. an imperfection in a bodily system
6. n. a failing or deficiency
7. n. an imperfection in an object or machine
8. n. a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
9. v. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
10. v:19/n:81 n. an imperfection in a bodily system n. a failing or deficiency n. an imperfection in an object or machine v. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army