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ALL meanings of faulted

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  • noun faulted a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character. 1
  • noun faulted responsibility for failure or a wrongful act: It is my fault that we have not finished. 1
  • noun faulted an error or mistake: a fault in addition. 1
  • noun faulted a misdeed or transgression: to confess one's faults. 1
  • noun faulted Sports. a ball that when served does not land in the proper section of an opponent's court. a failure to serve the ball according to the rules, as from within a certain area. 1
  • noun faulted Geology, Mining. a break in the continuity of a body of rock or of a vein, with dislocation along the plane of the fracture (fault plane) 1
  • noun faulted Manège. (of a horse jumping in a show) any of a number of improper executions in negotiating a jump, as a tick, knockdown, refusal, or run-out. 1
  • noun faulted Electricity. a partial or total local failure in the insulation or continuity of a conductor or in the functioning of an electric system. 1
  • noun faulted Hunting. a break in the line of scent; a losing of the scent; check. 1
  • noun faulted Obsolete. lack; want. 1
  • verb without object faulted to commit a fault; blunder; err. 1
  • verb without object faulted Geology. to undergo faulting. 1
  • verb with object faulted Geology. to cause a fault in. 1
  • verb with object faulted to find fault with, blame, or censure. 1
  • idioms faulted at fault, open to censure; blameworthy: to be at fault for a mistake. in a dilemma; puzzled: to be at fault as to where to go. (of hounds) unable to find the scent. 1
  • idioms faulted find fault, to seek and make known defects or flaws; complain; criticize: He constantly found fault with my behavior. 1
  • idioms faulted to a fault, to an extreme degree; excessively: She was generous to a fault. 1
  • noun faulted Simple past tense and past participle of fault. 1
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