Blame
[bleɪm] or [blem]
Definition
(noun.) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; 'he took the blame for it'; 'it was a bum rap'.
(verb.) attribute responsibility to; 'We blamed the accident on her'; 'The tragedy was charged to her inexperience'.
(verb.) put or pin the blame on.
(verb.) harass with constant criticism; 'Don't always pick on your little brother'.
Checker: Prudence--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
(v. t.) To bring reproach upon; to blemish.
(v.) An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
(v.) That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
(v.) Hurt; injury.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Censure, reprove, reprehend, reflect upon, lay or cast blame upon, find fault with, cry out against.
n. Censure, reprehension, animadversion, reproof, condemnation, imputation of fault.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Censure, chide, rebuke, reproach, vituperate, dispraise, disapprove, condemn,reprehend, reprobate, reprove
ANT:Acquit, exculpate, exonerate, encourage, praise, approve
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Definition
v.t. to find fault with: to censure.—n. imputation of a fault: crime: censure.—adj. Blam′able deserving of blame: faulty.—n. Blam′ableness.—adv. Blam′ably.—adj. Blame′ful meriting blame: criminal.—adv. Blame′fully.—n. Blame′fullness.—adj. Blameless without blame: guiltless: innocent.—adv. Blame′lessly.—ns. Blame′lessness; Blame′worthiness quality of being worthy of blame: blamableness.—adj. Blame′worthy worthy of blame: culpable.
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Examples
- And don't blame me, growled the convict I had recognized. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I don't even blame you--I pity you for opening your heart to a hopeless affection. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A serious occurrence that might have resulted in accident drove him soon after from Canada, although the youth could hardly be held to blame for it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I don't blame you--I only asked the question. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If you always spent money in that way, no one would blame you, said Jo warmly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is therefore from the influence of characters and qualities, upon those who have an intercourse with any person, that we blame or praise him. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Villard has often been blamed and severely criticised, but he was not the only one to blame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Men are not blamed for such evil actions as they perform ignorantly and casually, whatever may be their consequences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Men are less blamed for such evil actions, as they perform hastily and unpremeditately, than for such as proceed from thought and deliberation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He blamed me instinctively as the cause of the trouble. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He is blamed, and it would seem that he is rightly blamed, for conducting the war and the ensuing peace negotiations on strictly party lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I pity, though I cannot help blaming her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Not blaming me for getting a little hoard together? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not blaming me for standing on my own defence against a crew of plunderers, who could suck me dry by driblets? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am not blaming you, she said quickly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I sat down again, and said: 'I am not blaming you, Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Sentimental must refer to the bad, or Miss Helstone must have taken it in that sense, for she was not blaming Mr. Moore; she was defending him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- May I speak quite freely, and will you remember that it's Mother who blames as well as Mother who sympathizes? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Who blames me? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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