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blame

/bleɪm/ noun B1
  1. Censure. (uncountable) · Blame came from all directions.
  2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable. (uncountable) · The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
  3. Responsibility for something meriting censure. (uncountable) · They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
  4. A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code. (uncountable)
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And my shoe heels are horridly common-sense; I can’t blame them at all.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 28 · C1
Rachel, to do her justice, was not to blame for this.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 62 · C1
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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 147 · C1
“I’m no telltale, Anne Shirley, and anyhow I was just as much to blame as you.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 154 · C1

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