defected

[ dih-fek-tid ]
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adjective
  1. having deserted a country, cause, etc., especially in order to adopt another: In the movie White Nights, a defected Soviet dancer is returned to his motherland when the plane he’s on is forced to land in Russia.

verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of defect.

Origin of defected

1
First recorded in 1585–95; defect + -ed2 for the adjective senses; defect + -ed1 for the verb sense

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