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UK
/blˈeɪm/
]
[ US /ˈbɫeɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫeɪm/ ]
VERB
- put or pin the blame on
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harass with constant criticism
Don't always pick on your little brother -
attribute responsibility to
The tragedy was charged to her inexperience
We blamed the accident on her
NOUN
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a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
he took the blame for it
it was a bum rap -
an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed
his incrimination was based on my testimony
the police laid the blame on the driver
ADJECTIVE
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expletives used informally as intensifiers
not a blessed dime
it's a blamed shame
he's a blasted idiot
he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool
a deuced idiot
an infernal nuisance
a blame cold winter
I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing
How To Use blame In A Sentence
- The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high. Times, Sunday Times
- Naa, Mr. Penrose, yo 'preachers talk abaat th' Cross, and it's o 'reet that yo' should; but yo 'cannot blame me for talkin' abaat my flute, con yo ', when it's bin my salvation? Lancashire Idylls (1898)
- They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
- I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
- Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
- One consequence of epidemiological research into the contribution of lifestyle factors to cancer risk has been to blame the individual who develops cancer.
- She also blames retention of green belt land for small houses and high prices. Times, Sunday Times
- So who is to blame -- hunters, wildlife managers, hikers, developers?
- ‘If you've no wish to sell the charcoals,’ Rachel began, ‘I don't at all blame you.'
- So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night