faulted

fault

• n.
  • responsibility for a bad situation or event

    "it was John's fault"

  • (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

    "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"

    同义词：faultinggeological faultshiftfracturebreak

  • the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection

    "he knew his own faults much better than she did"

    同义词：demerit

  • a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

    "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"

    同义词：mistakeerror

  • an imperfection in a device or machine

    同义词：defectflaw

  • (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)

    "he served too many double faults"

  • (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)

    "it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it"

• v.put or pin the blame on

  同义词：blame