blame

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/bleɪm/]

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1. blame (verb) — sense 1

Definition: 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).

Example: The student driver was blamed for the accident.

2. blame (verb) — sense 2

Definition: To assert the cause of some bad event.

Example: We blamed the accident on the student driver.

3. blame (verb) — sense 3

Definition: To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

Example: though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].

4. blame (adj) — sense 4

Definition: euphemism of damn (intensifier)

Example: "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."

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