blame

present (v1)

blame

past (v2)

blamed

past participle (v3)

blamed

present participle

blaming

3rd person singular

blames

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Censure.

   • Blame came from all directions.

2. 2.Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

   • The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.

3. 3.Responsibility for something meriting censure.

   • They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.

4. 4.A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To assert the cause of some bad event.

   • We blamed the accident on the student driver.

2. 2.To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

   • I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.

3. 3.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.
   • 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.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.euphemism of damn (intensifier)

   • “What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!”

Overall

Common· #1601

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare