defecting

“For a while, the only manifestations of change were people defecting to West Germany,” says Park.

That same poll showed one in four registered Republicans defecting to Davis.

The Syrian Army corporal had entertained thoughts of defecting for a long time.

Those defecting from him, while generally unconvinced that Romney could do better, seem ready to simply try another approach.

A black Southern Democrat defecting to the GOP is pretty big news.

In a case of an American defecting to a Communist country, shouldn't you have it?

Yes; what did he say about defecting to Russia; anything he said about that?

This letter says to his mother he is defecting to Russia—right?

Large numbers of the survivors were defecting to the banner of El Hassan.