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defected

[ dih-fek-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having deserted a country, cause, etc., especially in order to adopt another:
In the movie White Nights, a defected Soviet dancer is returned to his motherland when the plane he’s on is forced to land in Russia.
defective ( def 1 ).

First recorded in 1585–95; defect + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; defect + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

After Olympic boxer Guillermo Rigondeux defected, his family suffered a form of domestic exile.

In 1992 Dostum “defected” to the side of the mujahedin and joined in the battle to take Kabul and oust Najibullah.

As I write this in Seoul, I'm about 40 miles from where an American sergeant defected to North Korea in 1965.

But whether they are Russian, or former or defected Ukrainian military, is in some ways beside the point.

It is also possible that some defected to join groups less well known to the police.

He kept to himself, and when he went abroad, he defected to Russia.

It was not a dishonorable discharge, but a discharge less than honorable after he defected.

That was our first intimation that this man had defected, when we read it in a newspaper article.

Some have defected to China, to the satellite nations and to Russia.

That's right, because after he defected here, she visited here.

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