defect from

defect from something

to run away from something; to forsake something. Thousands of soldiers defected from the army. Roger would never think of defecting from the armed services.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Iosue	-	Biblical Latin
Czcibor	-	Polish
Kaur	-	Indian (Sikh)
Tatjana	TAHT-yah-nah (Finnish)	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish
Rainerio	-	Spanish
Marinho	-	Portuguese