blame
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L334893 on Wikidata ↗verb
- ascribe responsibility to
noun
- act of censuring, holding responsible, making negative statements about an individual or group
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bleɪm/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English wīten, from Old English wītan).
- euphemism of damn (intensifier)
“"He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."”
““What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!””
noun
Etymology: 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”).
- Censure.
“Blame came from all directions.”
- Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
“The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.”
- Responsibility for something meriting censure.
“They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.”
- A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English wīten, from Old English wītan).
- 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.”
“After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to them again.”
- To assert the cause of some bad event.
“We blamed the accident on the student driver.”
“Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine And if I had an airplane, I still couldn't make it on time 'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear Blame it on the train, but the boss is already there”
- 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 [...].”
“I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.”
- To bring into disrepute.
“For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.”