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the situation in which people say or think that someone or something did something wrong or is responsible for something bad happening: Health officials put the blame for the disease on (= say that the reason for the disease is) poor housing conditions.
The meaning of BLAME is to find fault with : censure. How to use blame in a sentence. Is it blame on or blame for?: Usage Guide
the situation in which people say or think that someone or something did something wrong or is responsible for something bad happening: Health officials put the blame for the disease on (= say that the reason for the disease is) poor housing conditions.
If you blame someone for something, you say or think that someone did something wrong. If someone is to blame for something, they caused something bad to happen.
Definition of blame verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. responsibility for something that is wrong or deserving censure; culpability. an expression of condemnation; reproof. be to blame. to be at fault or culpable. verb. usually foll by for to attribute responsibility to; accuse. I blame him for the failure. usually foll by on to ascribe responsibility for (something) to.
blame, censure, condemn imply finding fault with someone or something. To blame is to hold accountable for, and disapprove because of, some error, mistake, omission, neglect, or the like: Whom do you blame for the disaster?
blame (for something) responsibility for doing something badly or wrongly; saying that somebody is responsible for something. Why do I always get the blame for everything that goes wrong? to lay/put the blame for something on somebody. The government will have to take the blame for the riots.
Blame is about being responsible for something that's bad or has gone wrong. If you have a headache, you might blame it on the heat, or on not getting enough sleep.
blame. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English blame1 /bleɪm/ S2 W3 verb [ transitive] 1 to say or think that someone or something is responsible for something bad Don’t blame me – it’s not my fault. I blame his mother.
