defect to

defect to something

to forsake one group and take up with another. Will he defect to the other side? David defected to a small East European country.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bailey	['beili]
Symeon	-	Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin
Themistoklis	-	Greek
Mukesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali
RubÉN	roo-BEN	Spanish
Susana	soo-SAH-nah (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese