Main Entry: ²fault

Function: verb

Date: 15th century

intransitive verb

1 : to commit a fault : err
2 : to fracture so as to produce a geologic faulttransitive verb 1 : to find a fault in <easy to praise this book and to fault it — H. G. Roepke>
2 : to produce a geologic fault in
3 : blame, censure <can't fault them for not coming>