Meaning

• A flake, fragment, or shiver.

• A thin cake, as of ice.

• A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.

  "That vase has a flaw."

• A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.

Meaning

• To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

• To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.