fault
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(noun) a serve that lands outside the prescribed area; "he served too many double faults" |
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Related Words: serve, service |
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(noun) responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault" |
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Related Words: responsibility, responsibleness |
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(noun) (geology) a fracture in the earth's crust with displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right on the San Andreas fault" |
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Synonyms: break, fault line, fracture, geological fault |
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Related Words: San Andreas Fault, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, inclined fault, scissure |
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(verb) put or pin the blame on |
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Synonyms: blame |
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Related Words: accuse, charge |
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(noun) the quality of being faulty or inadequate; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel" |
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Synonyms: demerit |
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Related Words: worth |
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(noun) an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" |
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Synonyms: defect, flaw |
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Related Words: bug, glitch, hole, imperfection, imperfectness |
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(noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "the fault was all mine" |
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Synonyms: error, mistake |
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Related Words: balls-up, ballup, betise, blooper, blot, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, cockup, confounding, confusion, distortion, flub, folly, foolishness, footfault, foul-up, fuckup, imbecility, lapse, mess-up, miscalculation, miscue, misdoing, misestimation, misreckoning, mix-up, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, omission, oversight, renege, revoke, skip, slip, slipup, smear, smirch, spot, stain, stupidity |
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