Dictionary Entry
defect
defect is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
- 2noun
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.
- 3intransitive verb
To fail; to become deficient.
- 4transitive verb
To injure; to damage.
- 5noun
a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
"a facial blemish"
- 6noun
a failing or deficiency
"that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"
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- 7noun
an imperfection in a bodily system
"visual defects"
"this device permits detection of defects in the lungs"
- 8noun
an imperfection in an object or machine
"a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"
"if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
- 9verb
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"
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