Definitions
desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”).
Used in a sentence
“a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment”
“Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.”
“Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Weak point”6 letters
02“Fault”6 letters
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