Usually means: Switched allegiance, abandoned original side.
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  1. defected: Merriam-Webster
  2. defected: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defected: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defected, defected: Wordnik
  5. defected: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defected: Wiktionary
  7. defected: Dictionary.com
  8. defected: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Defected, The Defected: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. defected: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. defected: Legal dictionary

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  1. DeFeCtEd, Defected: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See defect as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (defect)

noun:  A fault or malfunction.
noun:  The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
noun:  (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
verb:  (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
verb:  (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
verb:  (military) To join the enemy army.
verb:  (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
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