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fault

English

  1. 🔊 (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
    “he served too many double faults”
  2. 🔊 responsibility for a bad situation or event
    “it was John's fault”
  3. 🔊 (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
    “it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it”
  4. 🔊 (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
    “they built it right over a geological fault”
  5. 🔊 the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
    “they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel”
  6. 🔊 an imperfection in an object or machine
    “a flaw caused the crystal to shatter”
  7. 🔊 a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
    “he made a bad mistake”
  8. 🔊 put or pin the blame on

Spanish

  1. 🔊 culpa fault
  2. 🔊 falla fault
  3. 🔊 falta fault
  4. 🔊 retrecha fault
  5. 🔊 tacha fault, blemish
  6. 🔊 lacra fault, bane; blot

Similar words

mistake error demerit faulting geological fault shift fracture break defect flaw blame aberrancy aberration abysm abyss accountability accountable accuse answerability answerable arroyo at fault atrocity bad habit