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Past tense of fault

regular verb

The past tense of fault is faulted. The past participle is also faulted.

Forms of fault

Base form (V1)fault /fɔːlt/
Past tense (V2)faulted
Past participle (V3)faulted
Present participlefaulting
Third person singularfaults /fɔːlts/

Faulted in a sentence

  • The brilliant clarity of his argument could not be faulted.From the entry clarity
  • It wouldn't have occurred to me, but Melissa always faulted my Jewdar.2011, Lawrence Douglas, The Vices, Other Press, →ISBN. From the entry Jewdar
  • In very faulted seam zones unduly high power ontakes of the plough drives showed that the set values were already too high.1982, Glückauf: Volume 118, Issues 19-24. From the entry ontake
  • Among them was Ryan Ferchaud, 37, a tourist from Memphis who mostly faulted groups of college students for what she said was their no-holds-barred attitude regarding the mayhem.2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in…. From the entry no holds barred
  • Some lunabase areas such as the floor of Petavius are faulted, which may reasonably be attributed to very thin, plastic lunabase cover over a brittle substratum.2014, Frederick I. Ordway, Advances in Space Science and Technology, page 42. From the entry lunabase

Meaning of fault

  1. noun Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
  2. noun A failing of character; less severe than a vice.
  3. noun A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which increases one's risk of danger or difficulty.

Full definition of fault

Questions about the past tense of fault

What is the past tense of fault?
The past tense of fault is faulted.
What is the past participle of fault?
The past participle of fault is faulted.
Is fault a regular or irregular verb?
Fault is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fault (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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