BLAME
blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
(adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers; “he’s a blasted idiot”; “it’s a blamed shame”; “a blame cold winter”; “not a blessed dime”; “I’ll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I’ll do any such thing”; “he’s a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool”; “a deuced idiot”; “an infernal nuisance”
blame, rap
(noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; “he took the blame for it”; “it was a bum rap”
incrimination, inculpation, blame
(noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed; “his incrimination was based on my testimony”; “the police laid the blame on the driver”
blame, charge
(verb) attribute responsibility to; “We blamed the accident on her”; “The tragedy was charged to her inexperience”
blame, fault
(verb) put or pin the blame on
blame, find fault, pick
(verb) harass with constant criticism; “Don’t always pick on your little brother”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
blame (uncountable)
Censure.
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
(computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
Etymology 2
Verb
blame (third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
(transitive, usually followed by "for") 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).
Synonyms
• (censure; criticize): reproach, shend, take to task, upbraid
• (consider that someone is the cause of something negative): hold to account
Anagrams
• Amble, Embla, Lambe, Mabel, Mable, Melba, amble, belam, melba
Source: Wiktionary
Blame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blaming.] Etym:
[OE. blamen, F. blâr, OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme,
LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr.
evil speaking, perh, for ; injury (fr. to injure) + a saying, fr. to
say. Cf. Blaspheme, and see Fame.]
1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to
reproach.
We have none to blame but ourselves. Tillotson.
2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.]
She . . . blamed her noble blood. Spenser.
To blame, to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the
conductor was to blame for the accident.
You were to blame, I must be plain with you. Shak.
Blame, n. Etym: [OE. blame, fr. F. blâme, OF. blasme, fr. blâmer, OF.
blasmer, to blame. See Blame, v.]
1. An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong;
imputation of fault; censure.
Let me bear the blame forever. Gen. xiiii. 9.
2. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability;
fault; crime; sin.
Holy and without blame before him in love. Eph. i. 4.
3. Hurt; injury. [Obs.] Spenser.
Syn.
– Censure; reprehension; condemnation; reproach; fault; sin; crime;
wrongdoing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition