Defect and Fail

Defect

Defect verb - Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army.

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Fail and defect are semantically related in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Fail" instead a verb "Defect", when it comes to topics like abandon, break faith.

Nearby Words: defective, defection, defector, defecting, defectively

Fail

Fail verb - To stop functioning.

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Defect and fail are semantically related in abandon topic. Sometimes you can use "Defect" instead a verb "Fail", if it concerns topics such as break faith.

Nearby Words: failure, failing, failed

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Common collocations

number	defect number	fail number
mission	defect mission	fail mission
plans	defect plans	fail plans

Both words in one sentence

Sound Defect: On occasion, the Big Wheel would fail to beep during the Showcase Showdown and the host would instruct the audience to beep along.

Source: Series / The Price Is Right
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Merlin flat-out wonders if Haarahld and Cayleb have some genetic defect affecting their "fight or flight" instincts as they both fail to flip out when he does something obviously high-tech.

Source: Literature / Safehold

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