blame

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Synonyms: blaze, blase, blare, flame, blade, lame, blate, brame, blam, blake, blume

Antonyms: blaze, blase, blare, flame, blade, lame, blate, brame, blam, blake, blume

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Noun

1. Censure.
   • Blame came from all directions.
2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
   • The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
3. Responsibility for something meriting censure.
   • They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
4. A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

Verb

1. 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.
2. To assert the cause of some bad event.
   • We blamed the accident on the student driver.
3. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
4. To bring into disrepute.

Adjective

1. euphemism of damn (intensifier)

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