- defect or weakness in a person''s character
"he had his flaws, but he was great nonetheless"

- an imperfection in a device or machine
"if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"

- add a flaw or blemish to

- make imperfect or defective

1. A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

"This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws." -- Shak.

2. A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.

"Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?" -- South.

3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. [Obs.]

"And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw." -- Dryden.

4. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.

"Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw." -- Milton.

"Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn." -- Tennyson.

Syn. -- Blemish; fault; imperfection; spot; speck.

1. To crack; to make flaws in.

"The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed." -- Dryden.

2. To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.]

"France hath flawed the league." -- Shak.