Word: blameshifts
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: blame
shifts
Definition: Third-person singular of blameshift. To blame another for one's own wrong-doing. Blameshifting can be caused by pointing the finger at another when trying to save one's own skin.
Morphemes:
Affix: blame
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: 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).
Etymology Compounds: Affix: βλάσφημος
Language: grc
Decoded: blasphemos
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: uttering impious words; blasphemous
Affix: -έω
Language: grc
Decoded: -eo
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form verbs from nouns, adjectives and other verbs. Often, not always, added to the stems of thematic nouns or adjectives in -ος.
Affix: shift
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -es
Language: enm
Decoded: -es
Meaning: third person singular ending of verbs