Blame

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To hold responsible.
  • v. To find fault with; censure.
  • v. To place responsibility for (something): blamed the crisis on poor planning.
  • n. The state of being responsible for a fault or error; culpability.
  • n. Censure; condemnation.
  • idiom. to blame Deserving censure; at fault.
  • idiom. to blame Being the cause or source of something: A freak storm was to blame for the power outage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Censure.
  • n. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
  • n. Responsibility for something meriting censure.
  • v. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
  • v. To bring into disrepute.
  • v. To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
  • v. To bring reproach upon; to blemish.
  • n. An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
  • n. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
  • n. Hurt; injury.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To express disapprobation of; find fault with; censure: opposed to praise or commend.
  • Formerly it might be followed by of.
  • To charge; impute as a fault; lay the responsibility of: as, he blames the failure on you.
  • To bring reproach upon; blemish; injure.
  • [In such phrases as he is to blame, to blame, by an old and common construction, has the passive meaning ‘to be blamed, blamable.’ Compare a house to let, hire, build; grain ready to cut, etc.
  • In writers of the Elizabethan period it was often written too blame, blame apparently being mistaken for an adjective.] Synonyms To reprove, reproach, chide, upbraid, reprehend. See decry.
  • n. An expression of disapproval of something deemed to be wrong; imputation of a fault; censure; reprehension.
  • n. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; fault; crime; sin.
  • n. Culpability; responsibility for something that is wrong: as, the blame is yours.
  • n. Hurt; injury.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. harass with constant criticism
  • v. put or pin the blame on
  • v. attribute responsibility to
  • n. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
  • n. an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed
  • adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers
  • Equivalent
    cursed    curst   
    Antonym
    acquit    excuse   
    Verb Form
    blamed    blames    blaming   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    knock    criticize    criticise    pick apart    accuse    charge    assign    impute    attribute    ascribe   
    Cross Reference
    reprove    censure   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    censure    reproach    blemish    crime    sin    wrongdoing    reprehension    fault    condemnation    culpability   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ame    Boehme    Graeme    Mayme    Sejm    acclaim    aflame    aim    ashame    ballgame   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts