n.
Function: intransitive verb
Date: 15th century
1 : to commit a fault : ERR
2 : to fracture so as to produce a geologic fault
transitive 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>