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
From the library
Always lay the blame on others!”
And my shoe heels are horridly common-sense; I can’t blame them at all.”
Rachel, to do her justice, was not to blame for this.
If you catch pneumonia sleeping in a strange bed or coming out of that hot hall in the middle of the night, don’t blame me, blame Matthew.
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