Break and Fault

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Break noun - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other.

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Fault is a synonym for break. In some cases you can use "Fault" instead a noun "Break".

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Fault noun - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other.

Usage example: they built it right over a geological fault

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Break is a synonym for fault. Sometimes you can use "Break" instead the word "Fault" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: faulty, faultless, faulted, faulting, faultily

good	good break	good fault
full	full break	full fault
notable	notable break	notable fault
long	long break	long fault
Other adjectives: complete, single, small, actual, real, big, serious, little, slight, main, new, major, minor, biggest.

One arc has Calvin accidentally break his father's binoculars, and Calvin outright states to Hobbes that this is his father's fault for trusting him with it.

Source: Never My Fault
Break Them by Talking: Strife does this to Will (Magnum) about how the loss of life was his fault because he ran instead of just letting Strife kill him.

Source: Webcomic / Acrobat
She treats it as if it would have been HIS fault if she killed herself because it's clearly entirely his fault that she wasn't able to handle the break-up.

Source: Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?

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