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Flawing

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flaw

1  [flaw]
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–noun
1. a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault: beauty without flaw; the flaws in our plan.
2. a defect impairing legal soundness or validity.
3. a crack, break, breach, or rent.
–verb (used with object)
4. to produce a flaw in.
–verb (used without object)
5. to contract a flaw; become cracked or defective.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME flaw(e), flage, perh. < ON flaga sliver, flake

Related forms:
flawless, adjective
flaw⋅less⋅ly, adverb
flaw⋅less⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. imperfection, blot, spot. See defect. 3. fissure, rift.
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flaw 1   (flô)   
n.  

  1. An imperfection, often concealed, that impairs soundness: a flaw in the crystal that caused it to shatter. See Synonyms at blemish.

  2. A defect or shortcoming in something intangible: They share the character flaw of arrogance.

  3. A defect in a legal document that can render it invalid.

tr. & intr.v.   flawed, flaw·ing, flaws
To make or become defective.

[Middle English flaue, splinter, perhaps from Old Norse flaga, slab of stone; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

flaw 
c.1325, "snowflake, spark of fire," from O.N. flaga "stone slab, flake" (see flagstone); sense of "defect, fault" first recorded 1586, first of character, later (1604) of material things; probably via notion of a "fragment" broken off.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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