blame 
blame (blām)
transitive verb blamed, blam′·ing
- to accuse of being at fault; condemn (for something); censure
- to find fault with (for something)
- to place responsibility for (an error, fault, etc.) on someone or something
Etymology: ME blamen < OFr blasmer, to speak evil of < LL(Ec) blasphemare, blaspheme
noun
- the act of blaming; accusation; condemnation; censure
- responsibility for a fault or wrong
- Obsolete blameworthiness; fault
be to blame
to be blamable; be at fault
blame
n.
Censure
disapproval, condemnation, reprehension, castigation, remonstrance, denunciation, reprobation, disparagement, depreciation, animadversion, opposition, deprecation, abuse, opprobrium, contumely, objection, reproach, stricture, derogation, criticism, dispraise, disfavor, repudiation, disapprobation, reprimand, invective, slur, aspersion, accusation, reproof, attack, chiding, rebuke, vituperation, objurgation, impeachment, complaint, diatribe, tirade, charge, expostulation, indictment, recrimination, attribution, jeremiad, arraignment, implication, obloquy, imputation, exprobration, inculpation, incrimination, Philippic, reflection, discountenance, calumny, ascription, frowning upon. Antonyms
praise*, commendation*, appreciation. * Responsibility
culpability, answerability, liability, onus; see guilt, responsibility 2.
to blame
blame
v.
Object
- victim: This bill will also lead to blaming the victim for injury.
- badger: Now, it appears to be trying to blame the badger by implication rather than by fact.
- lack: Other people said the same thing, and blamed the lack of sunshine during much of June.
- someone: We really can't go blaming someone or somebody else.
- anyone: I had been too lost in my grief to blame anyone for what had happened.
Converse of object
- apportion: He had no interest in apportioning blame or proving that anyone was at fault.
- lay: Genesis 3 will lay the blame for evil at the door of the human race.
- deflect: Or, could he have been trying to deflect blame for 7/7?
- pin: There is no point in trying to pin the blame on an innocent MLRO who is only trying to do his or her job.
- shift: Scapegoats The story shows how ready some people are to shift the blame for their own actions onto someone else.
- assign: If we are still working on assigning blame and legitimacy, it will not get us any further ahead in understanding the period better.
Preposition: for
- mess: Someone has to make the ignorant realize who is to blame for the mess!
- failure: Airline captain James Thain, who survived the crash, was blamed for a failure to sweep the wings of ice.
- defeat: Hitler could find plenty of people to blame for the defeat.
- accident: However they disputed the level at which who was most to blame for the accident.
- outbreak: The " gruel caldron " was blamed for outbreaks of diarrhea among inmates.
- death: Charles was still being blamed for the death of Diana.
Modifies a noun
- culture: Today we import American blame culture by the sack load.
Noun used with modifier
- I: Features ' I blame Elizabeth David ' He may have won OFM readers ' hearts with the peerless breakfasts at his Carluccio's Caff?
To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.
Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime¤ , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume¤ . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
I loved thee once; I'll love no moreö Thine be the grief as is the blame; Thou art not what thou wast before, What reason I should be the same?
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
But we mustn't go too far backin anybody's life Because if we dothen nobody is to blame for anything, and nothing matters, and everything is allowed.
A'sound' banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoidsit, but onewho, whenheisruined, isruined in a conventional and orthodox wayalong with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw theThing ashesees It for the God of Things as They are!
Como te dec|¤a al principio, nadie hace nada y, naturalmente, soy yo,es elPresidente delaRep u¤ blica elque lo tiene que hacer todo, aunque salga como el cohetero. Con decir que si no fuera por m |¤ no existir|¤a la fortuna, ya que hasta de diosa ciega tengo que hacer en la loter|¤a. But, as I told you, nobody ever does a thing, and so naturally it is I, the President of the Republic, who has to do everything, and take all the blame as well.You might almost say that if it weren't for me Fortune wouldn't exist, as I have even to take the part of the blind goddess in the lottery.
But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.
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