default
/dɪˈfɔlt/ verb C2- To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- To fail to fulfill a financial obligation. · to default on a loan
- To lose a competition by failing to compete. · If you refuse to wear a proper uniform, you will not be allowed to compete and will default this match.
- To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard. · If you don't specify a color, it defaults to red.
He/she/it defaults · Past defaulted · Past participle defaulted · -ing form defaulting
Verb forms
- Base form
- default
- He/she/it
- defaults
- Past
- defaulted
- Past participle
- defaulted
- -ing form
- defaulting
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Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
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