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blame

  • noun
  • blām

culpability for something negative or undesirable.

Example

“The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.”

Other meanings

  1. responsibility for something meriting censure.

    “They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.”

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

Example sentences

  • “Whoever excites wasps has only to blame himself.”

    Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

  • “I've got no one but myself to blame.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Ancient Greek "βλασφημέω".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “blame” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.