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victim-blame

verb

Etymology

Back-formation from victim-blaming, equivalent to victim + blame.

  1. derived from βλασφημέω
  2. derived from blastemo
  3. derived from blame
  4. inherited from blame
  5. formed as victim-blame — “victim + blame”

Definitions

  1. To subject to victim-blaming

    To subject to victim-blaming; to blame and hold responsible (the victim of an attack, disease, etc for the attack which they have suffered).

    • Original groups who suffer from the infection, particularly if the epidemic is a sexually transmitted disease, can be stigmatized and victim-blamed.
    • […] of women who have been utterly socially marginalized (and victim-blamed for their own drug problems) by mainstream US society.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for victim-blame. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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