Definitions for blame
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Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. incrimination, inculpation, blamenoun

   an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed

   "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on the driver"

2. blame, rapadjective

   a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

   "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"

3. blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernalverb

   expletives used informally as intensifiers

   "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"

4. blame, faultverb

   put or pin the blame on

5. blame, find fault, pickverb

   harass with constant criticism

   "Don't always pick on your little brother"

6. blame, chargeverb

   attribute responsibility to

   "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Blameverb

   to censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach

2. Blameverb

   to bring reproach upon; to blemish

3. Blame

   an expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure

4. Blame

   that which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin

5. Blame

   hurt; injury

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Blame

   Blame is the act of censuring, holding responsible, making negative statements about an individual or group that their action or actions are socially or morally irresponsible, the opposite of praise. When someone is morally responsible for doing something wrong their action is blameworthy. By contrast, when someone is morally responsible for doing something right, we may say that his or her action is praiseworthy. There are other senses of praise and blame that are not ethically relevant. One may praise someone's good dress sense, and blame the weather for a crop failure.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Blame

   blām, v.t. to find fault with: to censure.—n. imputation of a fault: crime: censure.—adj. Blam′able, deserving of blame: faulty.—n. Blam′ableness.—adv. Blam′ably.—adj. Blame′ful, meriting blame: criminal.—adv. Blame′fully.—n. Blame′fullness.—adj. Blameless, without blame: guiltless: innocent.—adv. Blame′lessly.—ns. Blame′lessness; Blame′worthiness, quality of being worthy of blame: blamableness.—adj. Blame′worthy, worthy of blame: culpable. [Fr. blâmer, blasmer—Gr. blasphēme-ein, to speak ill. See Blaspheme.]

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1. blame

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Matched Categories

1. • Accusation
   • Charge
   • Criticize

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'blame' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4253

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'blame' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2467

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'blame' in Verbs Frequency: #447

Anagrams for blame »

1. Amble

2. Mabel

3. Mable

4. Melba

How to pronounce blame?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blame in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blame in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of blame in a Sentence

1. Sandra Bernhard:

   Well, there’s only one person to blame.

2. Kevin Smith:

   It was difficult, i’ve never been involved in a situation like that where, one component is not in the box at all. It was f---ing soul crushing. I mean, a lot of people are gonna be like, ‘Oh, you’re just trying to blame the movie on him.’ No, but I had no f---ing help from this dude whatsoever.

3. John Burroughs:

   A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

4. Roger Stone:

   I've been completely honest about this. I described it various ways on the record in a speech to a large number of Trump supporters, i described it as a back channel. I think in another interview I may have said intermediary. In the third interview I said a mutual friend. They are all true. They're all consistent and what I learned from this person, and don't blame me if I had better sources than the mainstream media was very simply this, that Julian Assange had a substantial of information on Hillary Clinton and Julian Assange would drop it in October.

5. Suhaib Siddiqi:

   Ninety percent of the things in science fail -- that's the way the inventions are made, when it failed( at Moderna), he just shifted the blame to the technicians and fired them.

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