blame
IPA: bɫˈeɪm
noun
- Censure.
- Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
- Responsibility for something meriting censure.
- (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
verb
- To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
- (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
- (transitive, usually followed by "for") 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).
- (transitive, with "on") To assert the cause of some bad event.
adjective
- euphemism of damn (intensifier)
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Examples of "blame" in Sentences
- She tried to blame her tardiness on traffic, but we all knew she just overslept
- Please don't blame yourself for what happened - it was out of your control
- The company's financial troubles were largely due to poor management, but everyone was quick to point fingers and assign blame
- The politician tried to shift the blame onto his subordinates, but the public saw through his excuses
- There's no point in assigning blame now; we need to focus on finding a solution to the problem
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