Verfehlung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deviation noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
- fault noun Responsibility for a mistake or wrongdoing.
- prevarication noun The act of dodging the truth rather than stating it plainly.
- wrong adj Incorrect or not true.
Senses
Verfehlung is used for these senses in English:
- deviation The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
- fault A minor offense.
- prevarication (archaic, now, _, rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
- wrong Something that is immoral or not good.
- wrong An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
deviation — full definition
- noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
- noun In statistics, a measure of how far a single value differs from the average.
fault — full definition
- noun Responsibility for a mistake or wrongdoing.
- noun A flaw, weakness, or shortcoming in a person, object, or system.
- noun (geology) A fracture in rock along which the two sides have shifted relative to each other.
- verb To find something wrong with, or blame, someone or something.
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