Blame
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English
Noun
Blame (uncountable)- Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
- Censure.
- Responsibility for something meriting censure.
Verb
Blame (third-person singular simple present Blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)
- To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
- (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
- (transitive, usually followed by "for") 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).
Adjectives for Blame
high-repented; worthy; moral; sinful; specific; small; ill-placed; complete; deserved; directed; heavenly.
Verbs for Blame
absolve of—; account for—; accuse of—; allocate—; attach—to; avoid—; bear—; censure in—; charge with—; conceal—; deflect—; deserve—; devise—; expose to—;free from—; impute—to; incur—; lay—to; merit—; reproach with—; share—; stamp with—; trace—; vindicate one of
Adverbs for Blame
unjustly; morally; sinfully; specifically; completely; deservedly; prejudicially; unthinkingly; narrow-mindedly; puritanically.
Synonyms for Blame
censure, condemn, upbraid, reproach, reprove, condemn, reprehend, accuse.
Antonyms for Blame
praise, laud, thank, exalt, commend, applaud, exculpate, exonerate.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
indict, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, inveigh against, knock, lawsuit, lay to, laying of charges, liability, objurgation, onus, palaetiology, pillorying, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, placement, plaint, point to, prosecution, rap, rebuke, recriminate, recrimination, refer to, reference to, reflect upon, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprobation, reproof, reprove, responsibility, saddle on, saddle with, saddling, scold, set down to, settle upon, shake up, skin, skinning alive, stricture, suit, taxing, true bill, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation, account for, accountability, accounting for, accredit with, accrete to, accusal, accusation, accuse, accusing, acknowledge, allegation, allegement, anathema, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, answerability, application, apply to, arraign, arraignment, arrogation, ascribe to, ascription, assign to, assignation, assignment, attach to, attachment, attribute to, attribution, bill of particulars, blame for, blame on, bring home to, bringing of charges, bringing to book, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, castigation, censure, charge, charge on, charge to, complain against, complaint, condemn, condemnation, confess, connect with, connection with, count, credit, credit with, criticism, criticize, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, culpability, damn, damnation, decrial, decry, delation, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, derivation from, disapprobation, disapproval, etiology, excoriation, fasten upon, father upon, fault, fix on, fix upon, flaying, fulminate against, fulmination, fustigation, guilt, hang on, hold against, honor, impeach, impeachment, implication, impugn, imputation, impute, impute to, incriminate,
