defected in English

verb
1
abandon one's country or cause in favor of an opposing one.
he defected to the Soviet Union after the war
synonyms:desertchange sidesturn traitorrebelrenegeabscondquitjump shipescapebreak faithsecede fromrevolt againstgo AWOLcross the floorforsake
verb

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1. The scientist defected to another country.

2. The British spy, Kim Philby, defected to the Soviet Union/defected from Britain in 19

3. They defected because russian dance was in a straitjacket.

4. She found me a few years after we all defected.

5. 14 She defected from the Liberals and joined the Socialists.

6. After two commanders defected to the Portuguese, they gave up Solor.

7. An Imperial pilot, one of the cargo drivers he defected yesterday.

8. Once Severus arrived in Italy, however, his army defected to Maxentius.

9. Occasionally, North Koreans who have defected to South Korea decided to return.

10. What conditions in the Church have so disturbed nuns that thousands have defected?

11. Later, most of the officers who had graduated from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) defected.

12. Synonyms for Apostatized include deserted, abandoned, backslid, backslided, backslidden, defected, rejected, reneged, renounced and strayed

13. Revolting against Median rulership, Cyrus won a swift victory because the army of Astyages defected.

14. In 2009, a wanted man cut a hole in the demilitarized zone fence and defected.

15. Her secretary, William Maitland of Lethington, defected to the Protestant side, bringing his administrative skills.

16. Oscar Colas is a top prospect who defected from Cuba and is seeking an MLB contract

17. 24 A number of writers and musicians defected from the Soviet Union to the West in the 1960s.

18. He defected to the Soviet Union to escape the Japanese conquest of the partisans in 1940.

19. Opponents of the regime have taken up arms and been joined by soldiers who have defected .

20. A number of writers and musicians defected from the Soviet Union to the West in the 1960s.

21. But the Allies would not let them go because they feared they could have defected to the German side.

22. Before the battle one of Antony's generals, Quintus Dellius, had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Antony's battle plans.

23. Tensions between the two powers erupted into conflict when Caucasian Iberia under Gourgen defected to the Romans in 524–525.

24. In 1978, Ion Mihai Pacepa, a senior member of the Romanian political police (Securitate, State Security), defected to the United States.

25. In 1408 a group of nobles led by Švitrigaila along with the Chernihiv bishop together with a significant group of soldiers defected to Moscow.

26. Pinarius had these messengers executed and then defected to Octavian's side, surrendering to him the four legions under his command that Antony desired to obtain.

27. Assistance in the defection and rescuing of the family of Munir Redfa, an Iraqi pilot who defected and flew his MiG-21 to Israel in 1966: "Operation Diamond".

28. Belenko was not the only pilot to have defected from the Soviet Union in this way, nor was he the first such to defect from a Soviet-bloc country.

29. The Bloc was formed by Members of Parliament (MPs) who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party during the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord.

30. After a series of Brainwashings, she eventually flipped on her country and defected to the United States where she became a part of the hero community, even joining the Avengers.

31. The all-female Amaterasu were established as an independent command by the Republic of the Sphere in 3081, but defected to the Draconis Combine as part of Katana Tormark's Fury movement

32. Shortly afterwards, Abdullah Jan Wahidi, the former Governor of Laghman Province, who had announced his alliance with the Taliban in a publicized ceremony in late April, defected back to the United Front

33. A later chronicle, that of Leonti Mroveli, derives "aznauri" from the semi-legendary ruler Azon (Georgian –uri is a common adjectival suffix), whose 1,000 soldiers defected him and were subsequently named aznauri by Azon’s victorious rival P’arnavaz.

34. The post-extraction resorption of an alveolar ridge is a natural process of bone remodeling which may seriously affect the dimensions of the ridge.1 Alveolar ridge resorption may create a clinical problem such as esthetically and functionally defected removable prosthesis and fixed prosthesis.

35. Based on an analysis of satellite imagery, information from Ko Chong-song (a North Korean official who had defected), and a number of North Korean technical documents, there is speculation that the Hamhung plant is manufacturing unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine, a rocket fuel that is used in North Korean long-range missiles.

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37. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi (Arabic: رافد أحمد علوان الجنابي ‎, Rāfid Aḥmad Alwān; born 1968), known by the Defense Intelligence Agency cryptonym "Curveball", is a German citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.

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