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Word: Flaw
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse flaga ‘slab’. The original sense was ‘a flake of snow’, later, ‘a fragment or splinter’, hence ‘a defect or imperfection’ (late 15th century)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
flɔː
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a mark, blemish, or other imperfection which mars a substance or object
Short Definition:mark or blemish
Examples:- a flaw in the glass
Word: Flaw
Speech Type: Verb
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
flɔː
Dialects: British English
Definition:
mar, weaken, or invalidate (something)
Short Definition:mar or weaken
Examples:- the computer game was flawed by poor programming
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