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(verb) attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience" |
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Synonyms: charge |
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Related Words: ascribe, assign, attribute, impute |
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(verb) put or pin the blame on |
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Synonyms: fault |
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Related Words: accuse, charge |
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Antonyms: absolve |
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(verb) harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother" |
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Synonyms: find fault, pick |
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Related Words: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
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(noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" |
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Synonyms: rap |
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Related Words: reproach |
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(satellite adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" |
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Synonyms: blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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(noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed; "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on on the driver" |
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Synonyms: incrimination, inculpation |
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Related Words: accusal, accusation, self-incrimination |
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