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Definition of blame
blamed
;blaming
transitive verb
1 : to find fault with : censure the right to praise or blame a literary work
2a : to hold responsible they blame me for everythingb : to place responsibility for blames it on me
blamer
nounto blame
: at fault : responsible says he's not to blame for the accident
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Is it blame on or blame for?
Use of blame in sense 2b with on has occasionally been disparaged as wrong. Such disparagement is without basis; blame on occurs as frequently in carefully edited prose as blame for. Both are standard.
Examples of blame in a Sentence
Don't blame me. You are responsible for your own problems.
My father always blames everything on me.
I blame the poor harvest on the weather.
Recent Examples of blame from the Web
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Some residents blamed the violence on police, accusing them of taking a hands-off approach to fighting crime.
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How the attackers were able breach security Wednesday was unclear, but opposition leaders blamed the National Guard officers who are responsible for protecting the building.
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The media are, of course, partly to blame, as Thatcher herself understood.
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The questions about a fatal car accident in early June for which Williams has been blamed and sued — though not yet cited or charged by law enforcement — were posed gently but persistently.
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Global climate change is blamed for more frequent and more intense flooding along the gulf.
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Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., tweeted: Any further attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also on Russia & Iran who support him killing his own people.
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President Trump is now blaming the Russian hacking on the previous administration.
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And instead of blaming the victims, colleges should work to discourage would-be perpetrators.
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Origin and Etymology of blame
Middle English, from Anglo-French blamer, blasmer, from Late Latin blasphemare to blaspheme, from Greek blasphēmein
blame
Definition of blame
1 : an expression of disapproval or reproach : censure … saying nothing … either in the way of blame or praise. — R. L. Stevenson
2a : a state of being blameworthy : culpability … acknowledge the world as a world of common blame, — Muriel Rukeyserb archaic : fault, sin
3 : responsibility for something believed to deserve censure they must share the blame
blamelessly
adverbblamelessness
nounExamples of blame in a Sentence
It's not entirely his fault, but he's not completely free of blame, either.
willingly accepted the blame for not seeing that the kitchen was properly cleaned
Recent Examples of blame from the Web
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In this sense, Microsoft is right–but the blame shouldn’t end there.
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The city’s hyper-segregation deserves much of the blame, said Brian Sonderman, executive director of Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity.
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They are forced to victim-blame each other, to slut-shame each other, to publicly denounce each other.
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While a lot of lawmakers are launching probes and talking about holding airlines accountable in the moment, some of that blame falls to the regulations that already exist.
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Origin and Etymology of blame
see 1blame
BLAME Defined for English Language Learners
blame
playDefinition of blame for English Language Learners
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: to say or think that a person or thing is responsible for something bad that has happened
blame
Definition of blame for English Language Learners
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: responsibility for something that fails or is wrong
BLAME Defined for Kids
Definition of blame for Students
blamed
;blaming
1 : to find fault with Who could blame her for wanting to leave?
2 : to hold responsible He blamed me for everything.
3 : to place responsibility for Don't blame the mistake on us.
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