fault vs smear

fault and smear both are nouns.

fault and smear both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fault	Yes	No	Yes	No
smear	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, smear is a hyponym of fault; that is, smear is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fault:

fault: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
smear: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

Other hyponyms of fault include blot, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

fault (noun)	smear (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)	a blemish made by dirt
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection	a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
responsibility for a bad situation or event	slanderous defamation
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
an imperfection in an object or machine

fault (verb)	smear (verb)
put or pin the blame on	charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
	make a smudge on; soil by smudging
	stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
	cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

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