Defect and Flee

Defect

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

Flee and defect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Flee" instead a verb "Defect".

Flee

Flee verb - To cease to be visible.

Defect and flee are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defect" instead a verb "Flee".

Nearby Word: fleeing

Common collocations

turn defect turn flee turn
masse defect masse flee masse
ranks defect ranks flee ranks

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Northwest Front Non-white troops are killed on sight, even after the NAT allows the white troops to surrender, defect or flee.
  • Video Game / Original War Your objective is either to survive, capture the enemy base, infiltrate it or flee with your fellow defectors from your former allies' vast armies if you decide to defect to the Alliance.
  • Sometimes this can be justified, for example the bribing party may not have much hard foreign money to hand or the bribed party may have intended to flee the country and defect, but often it is not.
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