0 past simple and past participle of defect --
1 to leave a country, political party, etc., especially in order to join an opposing one: --
She has defected all along the line and now she is almost completely out.
He seemed to resent that someone who apparently belonged to one side should have defected to the other.
I say "former" not because the supporter had defected, but because he had died five years earlier.
I have nothing to suggest anything unsavoury about why he should have defected.
He denied and denied that, and it was discovered only after his son-in-law had defected.
Perhaps he has defected in the past 24 hours.
That may be because perhaps one out of 10 companies in a consortium has defected on the arrangements.
When the relatively global histories matched the relatively local set of contingencies (the computer's strategies) subjects cooperated; when the global histories contradicted local contingencies they defected.
