defectiveadjective
uk/dɪˈfek.tɪv/us/dɪˈfek.tɪv/C2 Something that is defective has a fault in it and does not work correctly:
defective brakes
defective eyesight
a defective gene
I think that theory is defective.
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Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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