Defect is valid Scrabble Word

Is defect a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is defect valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for DEFECT in dictionary:

VERB:

to desert an allegiance
To fail; to become deficient.
To injure; to damage.
desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
abandon one's country or cause in favour of an opposing one
desert one's cause or country to join the opposing forces

NOUN:

a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack
imperfection, blemish
Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.

an imperfection in a bodily system
a failing or deficiency
an imperfection in an object or machine
a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person\'s body)

Words related to DEFECT

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How to use DEFECT in a sentence

They could have known nothing of the man, the main defect of whose character, in relation to everything, was in having too little of the element or principle of purpose.
But for a slight defect in his speech, he would probably have followed Coleridge to the University with the intention of going into the Church.
By the fault of gallantry and defect of due courtesy to his wife, Sir Robert Ramble drove Lady Ramble into a divorce.
From this defect the colonies were continually falling to decay.
This last, a character-study of very moving and sympathetic realism, suffers a little from a defect inherent in one of Mr.
A color-blind person has some defect in one or more of the three sets of nerves which carry the color message to the brain.
Organized charity is thus confronted with the problem of feeble-mindedness and mental defect.
Is this defect of sufficient import to render the individual irresponsible in the eyes of the law? This question, I fear, cannot be answered very readily.
And hence there could be no faith in Him, although the moral virtues were in Him, since in their nature they imply no defect with regard to their matter.
Now it is plain that by reason of these three things He ought not to have assumed the defect of sin.

Nor can a man who is passing away into the other world, through a definite vital defect, bring back life through mental force.
Age, debility, or any other natural defect, or incapacity to act, advise, or command, would lead a chief to resign in favor of a younger man.
Is it the defect of the Federal organization, of the fundamental law of our Union? I hold that it is not.
The masts and rigging were to be carefully looked to, and every defect repaired.
His birth, in some unheard-of place in Pennsylvania, was quite inexpressibly low, and Olive would have been much disappointed if it had been wanting in this defect.
Even Agathon has been known to fail from this one defect.
Of course, she had been very careful to avoid all mention of the gold mound, but this omission in her narrative proved to be a defect which she had not anticipated.
For one desires not that which he has, but that which he has not, and here is a manifest defect.
He rubbed his eyes, thinking it might be a swirling of the night mist or a defect of vision.
Yet because of the fundamental defect that between the Christian Spaniard and his Mussulman conqueror there could be no political fusion, this brilliant civilization was doomed.
Even incorruptible men were either weak and selfish or subject to some cardinal defect of temper or intellect which, at times of crisis, neutralized their genius.
So, many of the prophets, who looked forward to the better times to come, laid their finger upon that one defect, and prophesied that it should be cured.
Like Byron, he was sensitive upon the subject of this physical defect.

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