Flaw

Definition of Flaw

Pronunciation: flạ

n.	1.	A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase. This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. - Shak.
	2.	A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute. Has not this also its flaws and its dark side? - South.
	3.	A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. - Dryden.
	4.	A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. - Milton. Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. - Tennyson.
v. t.	1.	To crack; to make flaws in. [imp. & p. p. Flawed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flawing.] The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. - Dryden.
	2.	To break; to violate; to make of no effect. France hath flawed the league. - Shak.

Related Words

aberrancy, aberration, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bad habit, besetting sin, birthmark, black mark, blackhead, blast, bleb, blister, blot, blow, box canyon, breach, break, bug, bulla, canyon, catch, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleavage, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, comedo, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, craze, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, damage, deface, defacement, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, defile, deform, deformation, dell, delusion, deviancy, dike, discredit, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, ditch, donga, draw, drawback, errancy, erroneousness, error, excavation, failing, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, faultiness, faute, fissure, flawedness, flume, flurry, foible, fracture, frailty, freckle, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gust, hamartia, harm, hemangioma, heresy, heterodoxy, hickey, hole, hurt, illusion, inadequacy, incision, infirmity, joint, keloid, kink, kloof, leak, lentigo, little problem, loophole, mar, mark, milium, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, moat, mole, moral flaw, needle scar, nevus, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, peccancy, perforation, perversion, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, problem, puncture, pustule, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rip, ruin, rupture, scab, scar, scarify, scissure, scratch, scud, seam, sebaceous cyst, self-contradiction, shortcoming, sin, sinfulness, slit, slot, snag, something missing, split, spoil, stain, stigmatize, strawberry mark, sty, taint, tear, track, trench, twist, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, valley, verruca, vesicle, vice, void, vulnerable place, wadi, wale, warp, wart, weak link, weak point, weak side, weaken, weakness, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wind gust, wrong, wrongness

Browse

Flavescent
Flavicomous
Flavin
Flavine
Flavol
Flavor
Flavored
flavorful
flavoring
flavorless
Flavorous
flavour
flavoured
flavourer
flavourful
flavouring
flavourless
flavourous
flavoursome
Flavous
-Flaw-
flawed
Flawless
Flawn
Flawter
Flawy
Flax
Flax brake
Flax comb
Flax cotton
Flax dresser
Flax mill
Flax puller
Flax wench
Flax-plant
Flaxen
Flaxseed
Flaxweed
Flaxy
Flay
Flayer

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

© 2009 Interapple, Inc. Cover