My government continues to treat dissent as defection.
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Defection
Synonyms for "defection" (147 found)
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holeimperfectionimprovementinadequacyinfirmitykinklittle problemmeliorationmitigationmodificationmodulationnondischarge of debtsnonpaymentnonremittaloverthrowpartingproblemprotestprotested billqualification
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Noun(1 words)
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34 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀποστασία noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Bulgarian
1 entries- отстъпничество noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Catalan
1 entries- defecció noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 叛變 /叛变 noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- 叛逃 noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- 變節 /变节 noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Dutch
2 entries- desertie noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- overlopen noun (act or incidence of defecting)
French
1 entries- défection noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Georgian
2 entries- განდგომა noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- განდგომილება noun (act or incidence of defecting)
German
3 entries- Abtrünnigkeit noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- Treuebruch noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- Überlaufen noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Indonesian
1 entries- pembelotan noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Irish
1 entries- tréigean noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Italian
2 entries- defezione noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- diserzione noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Japanese
1 entries- 変節 noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Korean
1 entries- 변절 noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Latin
2 entries- dēfectiō noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- transfugium noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Portuguese
2 entries- defeção noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- deserção noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Romanian
1 entries- defectare noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Russian
4 entries- дезерти́рство noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- изме́на noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- наруше́ние noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- отсту́пничество noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Turkish
3 entries- ayrılma noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- firar noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- ihanet noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Welsh
2 entries- enciliad noun (act or incidence of defecting)
- gwrthgiliad noun (act or incidence of defecting)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
military defection
Source: wiktionary
political defection
Source: wiktionary
mass defection
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.