Definition of "blame"

blame¹

/bleɪm/

noun
uncountable
1. Censure.
2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
3. Responsibility for something meriting censure.
4. (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

blame²

/bleɪm/

verb
third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed
1. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
  Quotations
  though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighbouring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
  1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book I, page 8
  That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary. The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.
  1919, Saki, ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace
  I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.
  2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 106
2. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
  Quotations
  For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
3. (transitive, usually followed by "for") 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).
4. (transitive, with "on") To assert the cause of some bad event.

Definition of "blame"

blame1

noun

blame2

verb

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