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re-defect

re-defect is the alternative form of redefect.

Meaning of redefect

Verb

redefect (third-person singular simple present redefects, present participle redefecting, simple past and past participle redefected)

  1. (intransitive) To defect again.
    • Asked if she was surprised when Svetlana redefected, Sinyavsky's wife was quoted as saying "Princesses are always capricious. In every fairy tale."2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 563

Forms of re-defect

third-person singular presentre-defects
present participlere-defecting
past participlere-defected
pastre-defected

Origin of re-defect

From re- + defect.

Questions about re-defect

What is re-defect the alternative form of?
Re-defect is the alternative form of redefect.

Words near re-defect in the dictionary

  1. re-creations
  2. re-creative
  3. re-cross-examination
  4. re-cross-examinations
  5. re-cultivate
  6. re-defect
  7. re-defected
  8. re-defecting
  9. re-defects
  10. re-define
  11. re-defined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-defect (page history and authors); redefect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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