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See also:blâméandblâme

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishblame, borrowed fromOld Frenchblame,blasme, produced from the verbblasmer, which in turn is derived fromLate Latinblastēmāre, variant ofblasphēmāre, fromAncient Greekβλασφημέω(blasphēméō).Doublet ofblaspheme. Displaced nativeOld Englishtǣling(“blame”) andtǣlan(“to blame”).

Noun

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blame (uncountable)

  1. Censure.
    Synonyms:dispraise,disapprobation,disapproval;see alsoThesaurus:condemnation,Thesaurus:criticism
    Blame came from all directions.
  2. Culpability for somethingnegative orundesirable.
    Theblame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
  3. Responsibility for somethingmeritingcensure.
    They accepted theblame, but it was an accident.
  4. (computing) Asource controlfeature that can show whichuser wasresponsible for a particularportion of thesource code.
Derived terms
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Translations
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censure—seecensure
culpability—seeculpability
responsibility—seeresponsibility
state of having caused a bad event
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishblamen, borrowed fromOld Frenchblasmer, fromLate Latinblasphēmāre(“to reproach, to revile”), fromAncient Greekβλασφημέω(blasphēméō). Compareblaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the nativewite(“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle Englishwīten, from Old Englishwītan).

Verb

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blame (third-person singular simple presentblames,present participleblaming,simple past and past participleblamed)

  1. (transitive, usually followed by "for") Toassert orconsider that someone is thecause of somethingnegative; toplaceblame; toattributeresponsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
    Synonyms:hold to account,hold someone responsible,hold someone accountable;see alsoThesaurus:blame
    The student driver wasblamed for the accident.
    After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn'tblame you if you never spoke to them again.
    • 1871,George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, inMiddlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC, book I,page 8:
      These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr Brooke to be all the moreblamed in neighbouring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
    • 1919,Saki, ‘The Oversight’,The Toys of Peace:
      That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume onDomestic Life in Tartary. The critics allblamed it for a lack of concentration.
  2. (transitive, with "on") Toassert thecause of somebadevent.
    Weblamed the accident on the student driver.
    • 1985 December 23,Prince, “Manic Monday”, inDifferent Light‎[1], performed byThe Bangles:
      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
  3. Tocensure (someone or something); tocriticize.
    Synonyms:reproach,shend,take to task,upbraid,fault,find fault;see alsoThesaurus:criticize
    • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:
      though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those yeblame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
    • 2006, Clive James,North Face of Soho, Picador, published2007, page106:
      I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising thanblaming.
  4. (obsolete) To bring intodisrepute.
    Synonyms:besmirch,blacken,disgrace;see alsoThesaurus:defame
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofblame
infinitive(to)blame
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularblameblamed
2nd-personsingularblame,blamest†blamed,blamedst†
3rd-personsingularblames,blameth†blamed
pluralblame
subjunctiveblameblamed
imperativeblame—
participlesblamingblamed
Derived terms
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Translations
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place blame upon

Adjective

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blame (notcomparable)

  1. euphemism ofdamn(intensifier)
    • 1897, Rudyard Kipling,Captains Courageous:
      "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, butblame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."
    • 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Star-splitter.”, inNew Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.:Henry Holt and Company,→OCLC,page27:
      “What do you want with one of thoseblame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!”

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Frenchblasme, adeverbal noun fromblasmer(“to criticise”).

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Noun

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blame (uncountable)

  1. criticism,condemnation
  2. accusation(especially legal)
  3. blame,culpability
  4. offence,misdeed
  5. imperfection,downside
  6. disrepute,dishonour
  7. blasphemy,irreverence
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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blame

  1. alternative form ofblamen

Walloon

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Noun

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blame f (pluralblames)

  1. flame
    Synonym:flame
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