scapegoat
IPA: skˈeɪpgoʊt
noun
- In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
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