blame
verb
[ bleɪm ]
• feel or declare that (someone or something) is responsible for a fault or wrong.
• "the inquiry blamed the train driver for the accident"
Similar:
hold responsible,
hold accountable,
hold liable,
place/lay the blame on,
censure,
criticize,
condemn,
accuse of,
find/consider guilty of,
inculpate,
ascribe to,
attribute to,
impute to,
lay at the door of,
put down to,
set down to,
pin,
stick,
blame
noun
• responsibility for a fault or wrong.
• "his players had to take the blame for the defeat"
Similar:
responsibility,
guilt,
accountability,
liability,
onus,
blameworthiness,
culpability,
fault,
censure,
criticism,
condemnation,
recrimination,
rap,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French blamer, blasmer (verb), from a popular Latin variant of ecclesiastical Latin blasphemare ‘reproach, revile, blaspheme’, from Greek blasphēmein (see blaspheme).
