Defection - English meaning

verb

Leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to escape from custody or avoid arrest.

Usage examples:

The barman absconded with a week's takings

verb

Present participle of abscond

verb

To go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere

Usage examples:

Abscond from she absconded from boarding school and hitchhiked to the city., two prisoners absconde…

noun

The abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle.

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The execution of their leader for apostasy brought widespread criticism

noun

The act of giving up your religious or political beliefs and leaving a religion or a political party

Usage examples:

In those days apostasy was punishable by death.

noun

The action of betraying one's country, a group, or a person; treachery.

Usage examples:

The betrayal by the king by his daughter

noun

The act of not being loyal when other people believe you are loyal

Usage examples:

[ u ] i felt a sense of betrayal when my friends refused to lend me money.

noun

An act of betraying someone or something, or the fact of someone or something being betrayed

Usage examples:

This was the first in a series of betrayals., i felt a sense of betrayal when my friends refused to…

verb

Leave a place suddenly or secretly.

Usage examples:

Now he has decamped to hollywood

verb

Present participle of decamp

Usage examples:

He decamped from the hotel with someone else's luggage.

verb

To leave suddenly and unexpectedly, usually without telling anyone

Usage examples:

He decamped from the hotel with someone else's luggage.

noun

The action of deserting a person, cause, or organization.

Usage examples:

I resented what i saw as my parents' desertion

noun

The act of leaving the armed forces without permission

Usage examples:

During the war, desertion was punishable by death., there were thousands of desertions in the last …

noun

The act of leaving someone behind in a difficult situation or when you should not do this

Usage examples:

Roger got his divorce on the grounds of desertion (= because his wife had left him).

noun

The quality of not being loyal to a person, country, or organization; unfaithfulness.

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An accusation of disloyalty and betrayal

noun

The fact of not supporting someone that you should support

Usage examples:

She was accused of disloyalty to her party., her friend's disloyalty was hurtful.

noun

The action or process of flying through the air.

Usage examples:

An eagle in flight

verb

(in soccer, cricket, etc.) deliver (a ball) with well-judged trajectory and pace.

Usage examples:

He flighted a free kick into the box

noun

An aircraft trip, or the occasion of being a passenger in an aircraft

Usage examples:

[ c ] we’ll be arriving home on tuesday on flight 147., [ c ] all flights out of midway have been c…

noun

An open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers.

Usage examples:

A mutiny by those manning the weapons could trigger a global war

verb

Refuse to obey the orders of a person in authority.

Usage examples:

Thousands of the soldiers mutinied over the non-payment of wages

noun

Refusal to obey orders, or a violent attempt to take control from people in authority, esp. in the military or on a ship

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[ u ] walker’s superiors charged him with mutiny., mutinous troops failed to overthrow the governme…

noun

The state of being deceitful and untrustworthy.

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It was an example of his perfidy

noun

Behaviour that is not loyal

noun

An act of armed resistance to an established government or leader.

Usage examples:

The authorities put down a rebellion by landless colonials

noun

Violent action organized by a group of people who refuse to accept their government’s power and are willing to use force to oppose it

Usage examples:

[ c ] the african-american nat turner led an 1831 rebellion., [ u ] many students were in rebellion…

noun

A statement that one no longer holds a particular opinion or belief; a retraction.

Usage examples:

Every writer interprets galileo's recantation in a different way

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The act of announcing in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them

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The hearing will focus on the reliability of the recantation., this is an almost complete recantati…

noun

The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

Usage examples:

The republics want secession from the union

noun

A radical movement involving groups of avant-garde german and austrian artists who, from 1892, organized exhibitions independently of the traditional academies. the vienna secession founded by gustav klimt in 1897 helped to launch the jugendstil.

noun

The act of leaving an organization or government, esp. the decision of a state to separate from the government of the united states

Usage examples:

Dabney had opposed secession at first.

noun

The act of making statements that are different from each other, so that they cannot both be true

Usage examples:

His tergiversations suggest a mind uncomfortable with either a western or an eastern identity.

noun

The crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government.

Usage examples:

They were convicted of treason