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fault-find

fault-find is the alternative form of faultfind.

Meaning of faultfind

Verb

faultfind (third-person singular simple present faultfinds, present participle faultfinding, simple past and past participle faultfound)

  1. (transitive) To find fault (with)
    • Be not always faultfinding, even when your husband should once in a while stay a little too long from home, or commit some other impropriety, according to your standard of moral measures.1868, William Bush, Ocean's Wave

Forms of fault-find

third-person singular presentfault-finds
present participlefault-finding
past participlefault-found
pastfault-found

Questions about fault-find

What is fault-find the alternative form of?
Fault-find is the alternative form of faultfind.

Words near fault-find in the dictionary

  1. fault tolerances
  2. fault trace
  3. fault traces
  4. fault tree
  5. fault trees
  6. fault-find
  7. fault-finding
  8. fault-finds
  9. fault-found
  10. fault-free
  11. fault-line

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fault-find (page history and authors); faultfind (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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