All defect synonyms
deΒ·fect
D d noun defect
- blemish β A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
- fault β a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- flaw β Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
- lack β something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
- glitch β a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
- weakness β the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
- crack β If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface.
- deformity β A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- bug β A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- deficiency β Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
- shortcoming β a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- injury β harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- irregularity β the quality or state of being irregular.
- shortage β a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- mistake β an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- hole β an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- foible β a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect: an all-too-human foible.
- discoloration β the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- infirmity β a physical weakness or ailment: the infirmities of age.
- rift β an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- vice β any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- failing β Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
- blotch β A blotch is a small unpleasant-looking area of colour, for example on someone's skin.
- taint β the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.
- patch β Alexander McCarrell [muh-kar-uh l] /mΙΛkΓ¦r Ιl/ (Show IPA), 1889β1945, U.S. World War II general.
- marring β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- seam β the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
verb defect
- faith β a female given name.
- quit β to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- depart β When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- pull out β to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- renounce β to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- abscond β If someone absconds from somewhere such as a prison, they escape from it or leave it without permission.
- revolt β to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
- withdraw β to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- reject β to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- abandon β If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- desert β A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
- spurn β to reject with disdain; scorn.
- lapse β an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- tergiversate β to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- schism β division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- turn β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- rat β any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- apostatize β to forsake or abandon one's belief, faith, or allegiance
- rebel β a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- renege β Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- forsake β to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.