| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A person who has defected: apostate, defector, deserter, recreant, runagate, tergiversator, turncoat. Informal : rat. See APPROACH. | | VERB: | To abandon one's cause or party usually to join another: apostatize, defect, desert3, tergiversate, turn. Slang : rat. Idioms: change sides, turn one's coat. See APPROACH, TRUST.
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