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Review :: Review (n.) To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel..

Adesmy :: Adesmy (n.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

Reordain :: Reordain (v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective..

Vice :: Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance..

Anury :: Anury (n.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

Lame :: Lame (superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle..

Flaw :: Flaw (n.) A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute..

Malady :: Malady (n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder.

Defectionist :: Defectionist (n.) One who advocates or encourages defection.

Inexertion :: Inexertion (n.) Want of exertion; want of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness.

Acrotism :: Acrotism (n.) Lack or defect of pulsation.

Defectibility :: Defectibility (n.) Deficiency; imperfection.

Reform :: Reform (n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government..

Mar :: Mar (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface..

Weakness :: Weakness (n.) That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect.

Conjecture :: Conjecture (n.) An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion..

Acatalectic :: Acatalectic (a.) Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse..

Lisp :: Lisp (v. i.) To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.

Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air..

Failure :: Failure (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops..

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