Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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.
4. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
5. (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
6. (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
7. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
8. A storm of short duration.

Example Sentences

There is a flaw in that knife.

That vase has a flaw.

This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws.

Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?

And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw

Yniol with that hard message went; it fell, / Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn: […]

And deluges of armies from the town / Come pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.

Word Forms

• flaws
• flawing
• flawed
• flawe

Synonyms for flaw

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When Should You Use Flaw?

Use flaw when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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