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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 Evasion of the truth.
  • 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

  1. noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
  2. noun In statistics, a measure of how far a single value differs from the average.

fault — full definition

  1. noun Responsibility for a mistake or wrongdoing.
  2. noun A flaw, weakness, or shortcoming in a person, object, or system.
  3. noun (geology) A fracture in rock along which the two sides have shifted relative to each other.
  4. verb To find something wrong with, or blame, someone or something.

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