blame
Censure.
Noun 4 meanings
Censure.
“Blame came from all directions.”
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
“The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.”
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
“They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.”
A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
Verb 3 meanings
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.”
To assert the cause of some bad event.
“We blamed the accident on the student driver.”
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
Adjective 1 meaning
euphemism of damn (intensifier)
Etymology
From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native Old English tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”).
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BLAME at a glance
BLAME has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (B 3 + L 1 + A 1 + M 3 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,275 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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