blame
/bleɪm/ verb A2- 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.
- To assert the cause of some bad event. · We blamed the accident on the student driver.
- To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
Plural blame · He/she/it blames · Past blamed · Past participle blamed · -ing form blaming
Verb forms
- Base form
- blame
- He/she/it
- blames
- Past
- blamed
- Past participle
- blamed
- -ing form
- blaming
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“I’m no telltale, Anne Shirley, and anyhow I was just as much to blame as you.”
The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, “It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions.” The Housedog replied, “Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others.”
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.
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