Definition of fault

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Fault (n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish..

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Malnutrition :: Malnutrition (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
Chastise :: Chastise (v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
Blame :: Blame (v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
Jump :: Jump (n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
Submission :: Submission (n.) Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.
Default :: Default (n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default..
Underlay :: Underlay (v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
Facile :: Facile (a.) Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
Corrigible :: Corrigible (a.) Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault..
Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience..
Sponsor :: Sponsor (n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety..
Failure :: Failure (n.) A failing; a slight fault.
Beau Ideal :: Beau ideal () A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model..
Blameful :: Blameful (a.) Faulty; meriting blame.
Accuse :: Accuse (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying..
Hypermetropy :: Hypermetropy (n.) A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia..
Culpable :: Culpable (a.) Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
Redhibitory :: Redhibitory (a.) Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault..
Default :: Default (v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend..
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