| bungle | | |
| n. (act) | 1. bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| ~ bobble | the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball.; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" |
| ~ snafu | an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up. |
| ~ spectacle | a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself. |
| ~ bull | a serious and ludicrous blunder.; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" |
| ~ fumble, muff | (sports) dropping the ball. |
| ~ fluff | a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines). |
| ~ faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism, gaucherie | a socially awkward or tactless act. |
| ~ howler | a glaring blunder. |
| ~ clanger | a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate.; "he dropped a clanger" |
| ~ misstep, trip-up, stumble, trip | an unintentional but embarrassing blunder.; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep" |
| v. (social) | 2. ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil | make a mess of, destroy or ruin.; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" |
| ~ go wrong, miscarry, fail | be unsuccessful.; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
| v. (body) | 3. bungle | spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly.; "I bungled it!" |
| ~ behave, act, do | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" |
| slip | | |
| n. (act) | 1. faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecism | a socially awkward or tactless act. |
| ~ blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, bloomer, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| n. (act) | 2. miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up | a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.. |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| ~ freudian slip | a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals. |
| n. (substance) | 3. slip | potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics. |
| ~ potter's clay, potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron; used in making pottery or for modeling. |
| n. (plant) | 4. cutting, slip | a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting. |
| ~ quickset | cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines.; "a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard" |
| ~ stalk, stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ. |
| n. (person) | 5. slip | a young and slender person.; "he's a mere slip of a lad" |
| ~ spring chicken, young person, younker, youth | a young person (especially a young man or boy). |
| n. (location) | 6. berth, moorage, mooring, slip | a place where a craft can be made fast. |
| ~ anchorage ground, anchorage | place for vessels to anchor. |
| n. (event) | 7. slip, trip | an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall.; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" |
| ~ fall, tumble, spill | a sudden drop from an upright position.; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" |
| ~ misadventure, mischance, mishap | an instance of misfortune. |
| n. (attribute) | 8. slick, slickness, slip, slipperiness | a slippery smoothness.; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" |
| ~ smoothness | a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch.; "admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs"; "some artists prefer the smoothness of a board" |
| n. (artifact) | 9. slip, strip | artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material. |
| ~ artefact, artifact | a man-made object taken as a whole. |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body). |
| ~ ring, band | a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration). |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration. |
| ~ cramp iron, cramp | a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together. |
| ~ reef | one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind. |
| ~ leading, lead | thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing. |
| ~ mullion | a nonstructural vertical strip between the casements or panes of a window (or the panels of a screen). |
| ~ typewriter ribbon, ribbon | a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter. |
| ~ screed | an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete. |
| ~ stay | a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset). |
| ~ tab | a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it.; "pull the tab to open the can"; "files with a red tab will be stored separately"; "the collar has a tab with a button hole"; "the filing cards were organized by cards having indexed tabs" |
| ~ tape | a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.; "he used a piece of tape for a belt"; "he wrapped a tape around the package" |
| ~ weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstrip, weatherstripping | a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. slip, slip of paper | a small sheet of paper.; "a receipt slip" |
| ~ piece of paper, sheet of paper, sheet | paper used for writing or printing. |
| n. (artifact) | 11. chemise, shift, shimmy, slip, teddy | a woman's sleeveless undergarment. |
| ~ shoulder strap, strap | a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag. |
| ~ undergarment, unmentionable | a garment worn under other garments. |
| n. (artifact) | 12. case, pillow slip, pillowcase, slip | bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow.; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" |
| ~ bed linen | linen or cotton articles for a bed (as sheets and pillowcases). |
| n. (act) | 13. sideslip, skid, slip | an unexpected slide. |
| ~ glide, coast, slide | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope" |
| n. (act) | 14. sideslip, slip | a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air. |
| ~ airplane maneuver, flight maneuver | a maneuver executed by an aircraft. |
| n. (act) | 15. eluding, elusion, slip | the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning). |
| ~ evasion | the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver. |
| v. (motion) | 16. slip, steal | move stealthily.; "The ship slipped away in the darkness" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (change) | 17. slip | insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly.; "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand" |
| ~ put in, inclose, insert, stick in, introduce, enclose | introduce.; "Insert your ticket here" |
| v. (motion) | 18. skid, slew, slide, slip, slue | move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" |
| ~ submarine | move forward or under in a sliding motion.; "The child was injured when he submarined under the safety belt of the car" |
| ~ skid | slide without control.; "the car skidded in the curve on the wet road" |
| ~ side-slip | slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis. |
| ~ glide | move smoothly and effortlessly. |
| v. (change) | 19. drop away, drop off, fall away, slip | get worse.; "My grades are slipping" |
| ~ decline, worsen | grow worse.; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| ~ backslide, lapse | drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards. |
| v. (motion) | 20. slip | move smoothly and easily.; "the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble" |
| ~ escape, get away, break loose | run away from confinement.; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" |
| v. (cognition) | 21. err, mistake, slip | to make a mistake or be incorrect. |
| ~ misremember | remember incorrectly.; "I misremembered the date" |
| ~ slip up, trip up, stumble | make an error.; "She slipped up and revealed the name" |
| ~ misjudge | judge incorrectly. |
| ~ fall for | be deceived, duped, or entrapped by.; "He fell for her charms"; "He fell for the con man's story" |
| v. (possession) | 22. slip, sneak | pass on stealthily.; "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking" |
| ~ hand, pass on, turn over, pass, reach, give | place into the hands or custody of.; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" |
| v. (motion) | 23. slip | move easily.; "slip into something comfortable" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (motion) | 24. slip | cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion.; "he slipped the bolt into place" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ slip | move smoothly and easily.; "the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble" |
| v. (cognition) | 25. slip, slip one's mind | pass out of one's memory. |
| ~ blank out, draw a blank, forget, block | be unable to remember.; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!" |
| v. (change) | 26. dislocate, luxate, slip, splay | move out of position.; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| wrong | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. wrong, wrongfulness | that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law.; "he feels that you are in the wrong" |
| ~ unjustness, injustice | the practice of being unjust or unfair. |
| n. (act) | 2. damage, legal injury, wrong | any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right. |
| ~ injury | wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted. |
| v. (social) | 3. wrong | treat unjustly; do wrong to. |
| ~ aggrieve | infringe on the rights of. |
| ~ do by, treat, handle | interact in a certain way.; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently" |
| ~ sandbag | treat harshly or unfairly. |
| ~ victimise, victimize | make a victim of.; "I was victimized by this con-man" |
| adj. | 4. incorrect, wrong | not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth.; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions" |
| ~ inaccurate | not exact.; "an inaccurate translation"; "the thermometer is inaccurate" |
| ~ erroneous | containing or characterized by error.; "erroneous conclusions" |
| ~ fallacious | based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information.; "fallacious hope" |
| ~ false, mistaken | arising from error.; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" |
| ~ improper | not suitable or right or appropriate.; "slightly improper to dine alone with a married man"; "improper medication"; "improper attire for the golf course" |
| ~ false | not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" |
| adj. | 5. wrong | contrary to conscience or morality or law.; "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie" |
| ~ unethical | not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behavior.; "unethical business practices" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| ~ unjust | violating principles of justice.; "unjust punishment"; "an unjust judge"; "an unjust accusation" |
| ~ immoral | deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong. |
| ~ improper | not suitable or right or appropriate.; "slightly improper to dine alone with a married man"; "improper medication"; "improper attire for the golf course" |
| ~ condemnable, criminal, reprehensible, deplorable, vicious | bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure.; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" |
| ~ immoral, base | not adhering to ethical or moral principles.; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds" |
| ~ mistaken, misguided | wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment.; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity" |
| ~ wicked | morally bad in principle or practice. |
| adj. | 6. improper, wrong | not appropriate for a purpose or occasion.; "said all the wrong things" |
| ~ inappropriate | not suitable for a particular occasion etc.; "noise seems inappropriate at a time of sadness"; "inappropriate shoes for a walk on the beach"; "put inappropriate pressure on them" |
| adj. | 7. amiss, awry, haywire, wrong | not functioning properly.; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" |
| ~ malfunctioning, nonfunctional | not performing or able to perform its regular function.; "a malfunctioning valve" |
| adj. | 8. wrong | based on or acting or judging in error.; "it is wrong to think that way" |
| ~ wrongheaded | obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion.; "a wrongheaded policy" |
| adj. | 9. incorrect, wrong | not in accord with established usage or procedure.; "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"; "it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts" |
| ~ improper | not suitable or right or appropriate.; "slightly improper to dine alone with a married man"; "improper medication"; "improper attire for the golf course" |
| adj. | 10. wrong | used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward.; "socks worn wrong side out" |
| ~ inside | relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space.; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter" |
| adj. | 11. ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely, wrong | badly timed.; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke" |
| ~ inopportune | not opportune.; "arrived at a most inopportune hour"; "an inopportune visit" |
| adj. | 12. faulty, incorrect, wrong | characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules.; "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; "the wrong side of the road" |
| ~ inaccurate | not exact.; "an inaccurate translation"; "the thermometer is inaccurate" |
| adv. | 13. incorrectly, wrong, wrongly | in an inaccurate manner.; "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong" |
| defect | | |
| n. (state) | 1. defect | an imperfection in a bodily system.; "visual defects"; "this device permits detection of defects in the lungs" |
| ~ myelatelia | any developmental defect of the spinal cord. |
| ~ imperfection, imperfectness | the state or an instance of being imperfect. |
| ~ birth defect, congenital abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder | a defect that is present at birth. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. defect, shortcoming | a failing or deficiency.; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information" |
| ~ disadvantage | the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position. |
| n. (state) | 3. defect, fault, flaw | an imperfection in an object or machine.; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" |
| ~ imperfection, imperfectness | the state or an instance of being imperfect. |
| ~ blister | a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint). |
| ~ glitch, bug | a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine. |
| ~ hole | a fault.; "he shot holes in my argument" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. blemish, defect, mar | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body).; "a facial blemish" |
| ~ appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing. |
| ~ birthmark, nevus | a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth. |
| ~ chatter mark | a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece. |
| ~ chip, check | a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something. |
| ~ crack | a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts.; "there was a crack in the mirror" |
| ~ gouge, nick, ding, dent | an impression in a surface (as made by a blow). |
| ~ mole | a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin. |
| ~ scar, scrape, scratch, mark | an indication of damage. |
| ~ burn mark, burn | a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body). |
| ~ blot, smirch, daub, smudge, slur, smear, spot | a blemish made by dirt.; "he had a smudge on his cheek" |
| ~ stigma | a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease. |
| ~ verruca, wart | (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus. |
| ~ milium, whitehead | a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland. |
| ~ blackhead, comedo | a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin. |
| v. (social) | 5. defect, desert | desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army.; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot" |
| ~ flee, take flight, fly | run away quickly.; "He threw down his gun and fled" |
| ~ dissent, protest, resist | express opposition through action or words.; "dissent to the laws of the country" |
| ~ rat | desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage. |
| error | | |
| n. (act) | 1. error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| ~ nonaccomplishment, nonachievement | an act that does not achieve its intended goal. |
| ~ blot, smirch, smear, stain, spot | an act that brings discredit to the person who does it.; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" |
| ~ mix-up, confusion | a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw" |
| ~ incursion | the mistake of incurring liability or blame. |
| ~ miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning | a mistake in calculating. |
| ~ distortion | the mistake of misrepresenting the facts. |
| ~ parapraxis, slip-up, miscue, slip | a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.. |
| ~ offside | (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.). |
| ~ lapse, oversight | a mistake resulting from inattention. |
| ~ omission, skip | a mistake resulting from neglect. |
| ~ blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, bloomer, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| ~ balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up | something badly botched or muddled. |
| ~ betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity, foolishness | a stupid mistake. |
| ~ renege, revoke | the mistake of not following suit when able to do so. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. erroneousness, error | inadvertent incorrectness. |
| ~ incorrectness, wrongness | the quality of not conforming to fact or truth. |
| ~ deviation | the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. erroneous belief, error | a misconception resulting from incorrect information. |
| ~ misconception | an incorrect conception. |
| n. (act) | 4. error, misplay | (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed. |
| ~ failure | an act that fails.; "his failure to pass the test" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| n. (attribute) | 5. error, wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable. |
| ~ evilness, evil | the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice.; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" |
| n. (event) | 6. computer error, error | (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer. |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | an event that happens. |
| ~ hardware error | error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer. |
| ~ programming error, software error | error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result. |
| ~ algorithm error | error resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result. |
| n. (communication) | 7. error, mistake | part of a statement that is not correct.; "the book was full of errors" |
| ~ misstatement | a statement that contains a mistake. |
| ~ corrigendum | a printer's error; to be corrected. |
| ~ erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error | a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind. |
| fault | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. demerit, fault | the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection.; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did" |
| ~ worth | the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful. |
| n. (object) | 2. break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift | (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" |
| ~ geology | a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks. |
| ~ fault line | (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface. |
| ~ crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure | a long narrow opening. |
| ~ denali fault | a major open geological fault in Alaska. |
| ~ inclined fault | a geological fault in which one side is above the other. |
| ~ san andreas fault | a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes. |
| ~ strike-slip fault | a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally. |
| n. (event) | 3. fault | (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" |
| ~ electronics | the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices. |
| ~ equipment failure, breakdown | a cessation of normal operation.; "there was a power breakdown" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. fault | responsibility for a bad situation or event.; "it was John's fault" |
| ~ responsibleness, responsibility | a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct.; "he holds a position of great responsibility" |
| n. (act) | 5. fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area).; "he served too many double faults" |
| ~ double fault | (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point. |
| ~ footfault | a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline. |
| ~ squash rackets, squash racquets, squash | a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets. |
| ~ badminton | a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net. |
| ~ lawn tennis, tennis | a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court. |
| ~ serve, service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play.; "his powerful serves won the game" |
| v. (communication) | 6. blame, fault | put or pin the blame on. |
| ~ accuse, charge | blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.; "he charged the director with indifference" |
| flaw | | |
| n. (state) | 1. flaw | defect or weakness in a person's character.; "he had his flaws, but he was great nonetheless" |
| ~ failing, weakness | a flaw or weak point.; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings" |
| ~ hamartia, tragic flaw | the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall. |
| n. (state) | 2. flaw | an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness. |
| ~ imperfection, imperfectness | the state or an instance of being imperfect. |
| v. (change) | 3. blemish, flaw | add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective. |
| ~ damage | inflict damage upon.; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" |
| mistake | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. misapprehension, mistake, misunderstanding | an understanding of something that is not correct.; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister" |
| ~ misconception | an incorrect conception. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. misidentify, mistake | identify incorrectly.; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister" |
| ~ identify | consider to be equal or the same.; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives" |
| ~ confuse, confound | mistake one thing for another.; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary" |
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