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overblame

overblame verb: to blame excessively.

Verb

overblame (third-person singular simple present overblames, present participle overblaming, simple past and past participle overblamed)

  1. (transitive) To blame excessively.
    • When all is said, however, it is easy to overblame the cinema, to exaggerate the actual harm and ignore the possible good.1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 25
    • But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages.1968, Cynthia Propper Seton, A Special and Curious Blessing, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 22

Forms of overblame

third-person singular presentoverblames
present participleoverblaming
past participleoverblamed
pastoverblamed

Origin of overblame

From over- + blame.

Questions about overblame

What does overblame mean?
Overblame means to blame excessively.
What part of speech is overblame?
Overblame is a verb.
What is the past tense of overblame?
The past tense of overblame is overblamed.

Words near overblame in the dictionary

  1. overblack
  2. overblacken
  3. overblackened
  4. overblackening
  5. overblackens
  6. overblame
  7. overblamed
  8. overblames
  9. overblaming
  10. overblanket
  11. overblankets

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