redefect

verb
re·​de·​fect | \ (ˌ)rē-di-ˈfekt How to pronounce redefect (audio) \
redefected; redefecting; redefects

Definition of redefect

intransitive verb

: to defect back or again especially : to leave a country and return to another which had been forsaken Yurchenko stunned his handlers by redefecting to Russia three months later … — Evan Thomas et al.