blames

Verb

blame (third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)

1. (transitive, usually) 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.

   Synonyms:

   hold to account, hold someone responsible, hold someone accountable

2. (transitive) To assert the cause of some bad event.
   • We blamed the accident on the student driver.
3. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
   • though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   reproach, shend, take to task, upbraid, fault, find fault, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out

4. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
   • For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   besmirch, blacken, disgrace, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmear

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