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What does defecting mean?

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  1. present participle of defect
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At the same time several of his aides were quoted in the press as saying he was considering defecting.
In 1989, Zuyev was granted asylum in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union in a MiG 29 and landing in Turkey.
He was accused of defecting from the Edwardsian camp and was even branded as a Pelagian by some opponents.
The possibility of a defecting system should not however be a hypothesis of departure.
At any rate, there's not a lot I can do right now to change things aside from defecting to the government and sicking them on the reformists.
He is disaffecting his far left, and they are defecting to his opponent again.

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