Definition of fault

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Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted..

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Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air..
Redhibitory :: Redhibitory (a.) Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault..
Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
Reproach :: Reproach (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
Squalodon :: Squally (a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
Wardmote :: Wardmote (n.) Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like..
Default :: Default (v. i.) To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty..
Default :: Default (v. i.) To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
Fault :: Fault (n.) Defect; want; lack; default.
Perfect :: Perfect (a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct..
Correction :: Correction (n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement..
Recriminate :: Recriminate (v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
Thrum :: Thrum (n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
Pick-fault :: Pick-fault (n.) One who seeks out faults.
Default :: Default (v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend..
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
Nagging :: Nagging (a.) Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache..
Complaint :: Complaint (n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding..
Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault..
Surf :: Suretyship (n.) The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another..
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