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flaw

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/flɔː/
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/flɔː/ · /flɔ/ · /flɑ/ · /ˈflɔː/

Definition of flaw

11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)A flake, fragment, or shiver.
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noun

  1. (obsolete)A flake, fragment, or shiver.
  2. (obsolete)A thin cake, as of ice.
  3. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
    “There is a flaw in that knife.”
    “That vase has a flaw.”
    “This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws.”
  4. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
    “Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?”
  5. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
  6. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
    “a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute”
  7. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
    “And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw”
    “Yniol with that hard message went; it fell, / Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn: […]”
  8. A storm of short duration.
  9. A sudden burst of noise and disorder
    “And deluges of armies from the town / Come pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
  2. (intransitive)To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.

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Etymology

From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer…

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From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).

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