fault
1 of 2verb/fɔlt/
Forms:faults,faulting,faulted,faulted
1
to put blame on someone or something for a mistake or problem
transitive- She tends to fault others without considering her own mistakes.
- The supervisor will fault any deviation from the established procedures.
- It's unfair to fault him for the project's failure without understanding the challenges he faced.
- The teacher didn't fault the student for the honest error in the assignment.
- The investigator couldn't fault the witness's account of the incident.
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