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▸ noun: A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.
▸ noun: (morality) A failing of character; less severe than a vice.
▸ noun: A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which increases one's risk of danger or difficulty.
▸ noun: A strongly undesirable variation of food or drink caused by impurity or contamination.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A point of weakness in something's physical structure.
▸ noun: A mistake or error.
▸ noun: A minor offense.
▸ noun: (tennis) An illegal serve.
▸ noun: (equestrianism) A penalty point assessed in horseback events such as show jumping.
▸ noun: (programming) An exception within a software program or process.
▸ noun: A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.
▸ noun: (geology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
▸ noun: (technology) An abnormal connection within an electric circuit.
▸ noun: (hunting) A loss of the scent being tracked by a hound.
▸ noun: (mining) An intrusion of another material, such as dirt or slate, within a coal seam.
▸ noun: (obsolete) want; lack; absence
▸ verb: (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
▸ verb: (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
▸ verb: (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.
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defect,
demerit,
error,
mistake,
blame,
fracture,
break,
flaw,
fault line,
geological fault,
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