Sekirov Dictionary

blame

/bleɪm/

verb 4
noun 4
adjective 1
forms 6
phrases 2

verb4

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to name someone or something as the cause of something bad
- The student driver was blamed for the accident.
- After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to them again.
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To assert the cause of some bad event.
- We blamed the accident on the student driver.
•
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
- though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...]. — 1590
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(no longer used) To bring into disrepute.
- For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge. — 1590

noun4

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Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
- The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
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Responsibility for something meriting censure.
- They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
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Censure.
- Blame came from all directions.
A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

adjective1

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euphemism of damn (intensifier)
- “What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!” — 1923

forms

blamed · blamedst · blaming · blames · blameth · blamest

Phrases with blame

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