blame

noun

/bleɪm/

Etymology

From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English wīten, from Old English wītan).

derived from βλασφημέω
derived from blastemo
derived from blame
inherited from blame

Definitions

1
Censure.
- Blame came from all directions.
2
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
- The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
3
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
- They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
›+ 6 more definitionsshow fewer
1. A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular…
  A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
2. 5
  To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative
  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).
  - 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.
3. 6
  To assert the cause of some bad event.
  - 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
4. 7
  To censure (someone or something)
  To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
  - 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.
5. 8
  To bring into disrepute.
  - For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
6. 9
  euphemism of damn (intensifier)
  - “What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!”

The neighborhood

synonymaccuse
synonymatwite
synonymblame
synonymbumble
synonymchallenge
synonymcop out
synonymdecry
synonymdefame
synonymdenounce
synonymfault
synonymfinger
synonyminculpate
antonymabsolve
antonymacquit
antonymdisculpate
antonymforgive
neighborfault
neighborhold to account
neighborscapegoat
neighborpraise
neighborcriticize
neighborascribe
neighborblameshift
neighborincriminate
neighbormisblame
neighboroverblame
neighborshoot the messenger
neighbortake responsibility

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at blame. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at blame. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at blame

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA