Sekirov Dictionary

scapegoat

UK /ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/US /ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt/

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

•
Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
- He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!
•
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- And Aarõ cast lottes ouer the .ij. gootes: one lotte for the Lorde, ãd another for a scapegoote. — 1530

verb1

•
To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
- People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own. — 1950

forms

scapegoated · scapegoating · scapegoats

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