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defect from
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of DEFECT
to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another <soldiers defected from the rebel army en masse as the failure of their cause became apparent>
Related Words abandon, abdicate, abjure, apostatize, cut off, disown, forsake, quit, reject, renounce, repudiate, spurn; renege; depart, go, leave, withdraw
Phrases go back on, jump ship, run out on, walk out on
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