Definitions for flaw

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Spelling: [flaw]

IPA: /flɔ/

Flaw is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in flaw (aflw).

Definitions for flaw

noun

1. a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault:
2. a defect impairing legal soundness or validity.
3. a crack, break, breach, or rent.
4. Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
5. a short spell of rough weather.
6. Obsolete. a burst of feeling, fury, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to produce a flaw in.

verb (used without object)

1. to contract a flaw; become cracked or defective.

Origin of flaw

1275-1325; Middle English flaw(e), flage, perhaps Old Norse flaga sliver, flake

Examples for flaw

It was more; it was a mistake, a flaw in her diplomacy; for Calendar intercepted it.

The most carping could have found no flaw in the quiet taste of his attire.

There was a flaw in one of the rods connected with the engine.

Rather than a flaw that heightens her appeal, it is a flaw that makes her difficult to forgive.

By the time the Army decoded the first Venona cable, the flaw had been corrected and KGB communications rendered impenetrable.

The Inspector seized on the one flaw left him for defense against her indictment.

If there is a flaw to be found here it is only one of narrowness; all of these narrators are American men and most are Marines.

The complainant's shield was examined and counted, and not a flaw discovered.

But the book has one flaw that should serve as a warning or spur to other first-time writers: It lacks higher-order imagination.

Fatness may be a flaw, but it is not a singularly terrible flaw.