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Flaw

Flaw Meaning & Definition
Flaw Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flaw?

[n] defect or weakness in a peron's character; "he had his flaws, but he was great nonetheless"
[n] an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
[v] add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective

Synonyms | Synonyms for Flaw: blemish | defect | fault

Related Terms | Find terms related to Flaw: aberrancy | aberration | abysm | abyss | arroyo | bad habit | besetting sin | birthmark | black mark | blackhead | blast | bleb | blemish | blister | blot | blow | box canyon | breach | break | bug | bulla | canyon | catch | cavity | chap | chasm | check | chimney | chink | chip | cicatrix | cicatrize | cleavage | cleft | cleuch | clough | col | comedo | coulee | couloir | crack | cranny | crater | craze | crevasse | crevice | cut | cwm | damage | deface | defacement | defect | defection | defectiveness | deficiency | defile | deform | deformation | deformity | dell | delusion | deviancy | dike | discredit | disfiguration | disfigure | disfigurement | distort | distortion | ditch | donga | draw | drawback | errancy | erroneousness | error | excavation | failing | failure | fallaciousness | fallacy | falseness | falsity | fault | faultiness | faute | fissure | flawedness | flume | flurry | foible | fracture | frailty | freckle | furrow | gap | gape | gash | gorge | groove | gulch | gulf | gully | gust | hamartia | harm | hemangioma | heresy | heterodoxy | hickey | hole | hurt | illusion | imperfection | inadequacy | incision | infirmity | joint | keloid | kink | kloof | leak | lentigo | little problem | loophole | mar | mark | milium | misapplication | misconstruction | misdoing | misfeasance | misinterpretation | misjudgment | mistake | moat | mole | moral flaw | needle scar | nevus | notch | nullah | opening | pass | passage | peccancy | perforation | perversion | pimple | pit | pock | pockmark | port-wine mark | port-wine stain | problem | puncture | pustule | ravine | rent | rift | rime | rip | ruin | rupture | scab | scar | scarify | scissure | scratch | scud | seam | sebaceous cyst | self-contradiction | shortcoming | sin | sinfulness | slit | slot | snag | something missing | split | spoil | stain | stigmatize | strawberry mark | sty | taint | tear | track | trench | twist | unorthodoxy | untrueness | untruth | untruthfulness | valley | verruca | vesicle | vice | void | vulnerable place | wadi | wale | warp | wart | weak link | weak point | weak side | weaken | weakness | weal | welt | wen | whitehead | wind gust | wrong | wrongness

See Also | bug | damage | failing | glitch | hamartia | hole | imperfection | imperfectness | tragic flaw | weakness

Flaw In Webster's Dictionary

\Flaw\, n. [OE. flai, flaw flake; cf. Sw. flaga flaw, crack, breach, flake, D. vlaag gust of wind, Norw. flage, flaag, and E. flag a flat stone.] 1. A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase. This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. --Shak. 2. A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute. Has not this also its flaws and its dark side? --South. 3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. [Obs.] And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. --Dryden. 4. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. --Milton. Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. --Tennyson. Syn: Blemish; fault; imperfection; spot; speck.
\Flaw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flawed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flawing}.] 1. To crack; to make flaws in. The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. --Dryden. 2. To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.] France hath flawed the league. --Shak.

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