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misblame

misblame verb: to blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.

Verb

misblame (third-person singular simple present misblames, present participle misblaming, simple past and past participle misblamed)

  1. To blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.
    • It would focus rather on those who in the terrible spotlight of hindsight could be misblamed for the tragedies in the first place. Americans in Vietnam, unilateralists in Rhodesia, those who maintain the modern partitions of an ancient Holy Land.1981, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Morality of Brutality, page 6
    • I need to remember that I am responsible for my feelings. I have often misblamed another for my bad emotional state.1983, Beth Hammond, Lord, Help Me!-- the Desperate Dieter, page 66

Forms of misblame

third-person singular presentmisblames
present participlemisblaming
past participlemisblamed
pastmisblamed

Origin of misblame

From mis- + blame.

Questions about misblame

What does misblame mean?
Misblame means to blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.
What part of speech is misblame?
Misblame is a verb.
What is the past tense of misblame?
The past tense of misblame is misblamed.

Words near misblame in the dictionary

  1. misbinding
  2. misbinds
  3. misbirth
  4. misbirths
  5. misbisection
  6. misblame
  7. misblamed
  8. misblames
  9. misblaming
  10. misblend
  11. misblended

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