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
Carnes	[ka:nz]
Martin	MAHR-tən (English), mar-TEN (French), MAHR-teen (German, Finnish), MAHR-tin (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish), MAWR-teen (Hungarian), mahr-TIN (Bulgarian)	English, French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croa
Hajar	-	Arabic
Laxmi	-	Indian, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Nepali
Benjamin	['bendʒəmin]
Otar	-	Georgian