Object

• badger: Now, it appears to be trying to blame the badger by implication rather than by fact.

• 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!

• 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.

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?