| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something that mars the appearance or causes inadequacy or failure: blemish, bug, fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming. See BEAUTIFUL, BETTER, HELP. 2. The condition or fact of being deficient: deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage1. See EXCESS. | | VERB: | To abandon one's cause or party usually to join another: apostatize, desert3, renegade, tergiversate, turn. Slang : rat. Idioms: change sides, turn one's coat. See APPROACH, TRUST.
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