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. 1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies. 2. 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. Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- any every foe. Pope. Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. Macaulay. Syn. -- Deficiency; imperfection; blemish. See Fault. To fail; to become deficient. [Obs.] "Defected honor." Warner. To injure; to damage. "None can my life defect." [R.] Troubles of Q. Elizabeth (1639).
11. To fail; to become deficient. [Obs.] "Defected honor." Warner.
12. 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