blame
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native Old English tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”).
Inflected forms:
form: blames
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blamed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: blame
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: blame
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: blamed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: blame
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: blamest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: blamed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: blamedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: blames
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blameth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: blamed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: blame
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: blamed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: blame
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: blamed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: blame
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: blaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Censure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Blame came from all directions.
gloss: Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
gloss: Responsibility for something meriting censure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
gloss: A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: The student driver was blamed for the accident.
After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to them again.
These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighbouring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary. The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.
gloss: To assert the cause of some bad event.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We blamed the accident on the student driver.
Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine
And if I had an airplane, I still couldn't make it on time
'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train, but the boss is already there
gloss: To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
pos: verb
examples: though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.
gloss: To bring into disrepute.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
gloss: euphemism of damn (intensifier)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."
“What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!”
Synonyms: accuse
atwite
blame
bumble
challenge
cop out
decry
defame
denounce
fault
finger
inculpate
lay at someone's door
lay on
lay something at the feet of
patronize
point the bone
put it to
put the blame on
shend
twit
wite
Antonyms: absolve
acquit
disculpate
forgive
Related words: fault
hold to account
scapegoat
praise
criticize
Derived words: blameful
blame game
blameless
blameshift
blamesmanship
blamestorm
blameworthy
blamey
put the blame on
blamable
blameable
blame Canada
blamer
dad-blamed
misblame
overblame
to blame
victim-blame
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