blame

CEFRA2

/bleɪm/

adjective · noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    expletives used informally as intensifiers.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

Examples

  • She doesn't blame anyone for her father's death.

  • You have no one but yourself to blame.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
3
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Responsibility for something meriting censure.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

More examples

In context

  • Censorious people delight in casting blame.

  • The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.

  • They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.

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Antonyms

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native Old English tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”).