Concept cluster: Physical processes > Defect or fault
adj
Drooping.
n
A defect or flaw, especially in cloth.
v
(transitive) To blur all over.
v
(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
n
A moral defect; a character flaw.
adj
(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
n
(usually in the plural) Fragment thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
adj
(archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
n
The world, viewed as a fusion of order and disorder.
adj
Cloying.
adj
Shrunken or shrivelled from exposure to heat.
adv
So as to dangle.
n
A flaw in the design of something.
v
To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
adj
Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.
n
A flaw or void repaired with such a piece.
v
(obsolete) Synonym of blemish.
n
(Early Modern, obsolete) A flaw.
adj
(obsolete) encrusted
adj
(obsolete) Liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
adj
Alternative spelling of flakable
adj
(of a person) unreliable or impractical
adj
Alternative spelling of flaky [Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.]
adj
Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
adj
(obsolete) windy; generating wind
n
(obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
adj
Full of flaws; flawed
adj
Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.
n
A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
adj
Flaky.
v
(transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
adj
(figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc.
v
To have a sensation like the movement of ants.
adj
Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
adj
Having leaks; not fully sealed.
v
(figuratively) To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; (of a person or thing) to tower; (of an idea) to impressively or intimidatingly occupy the mind; (of an event) to be imminent.
v
(transitive, intransitive, rare) To render, to become, or to be, lugubrious.
n
Perplexity.
adj
Having been made unclear, obfuscated.
adj
floppy, droopy
adj
(archaic) stormy
n
The act of one who pants.
adj
(biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping
adj
Mixed or layered with impurities.
adj
Marked by roiling or agitation; turbid
v
(transitive) To construct in a manner so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
adj
Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
adj
Blurred as by being rubbed.
adj
trenchant
adj
Characterised or marked by trickling
n
A serious flaw in something otherwise good; a problem that ruins everything else.
n
A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.

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