blame

noun

1. (uncountable)Censure.

   “Blame came from all directions.”

2. (uncountable)Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

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

3. (uncountable)Responsibility for something meriting censure.

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

4. (uncountable)A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

verb

1. (transitive, usually)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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To assert the cause of some bad event.

   “We blamed the accident on the student driver.”

   “Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine And if I had an airplane, I still couldn't make it on time 'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear Blame it on the train, but the boss is already there”

3. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

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

   “I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.”

4. (obsolete)To bring into disrepute.

   “For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)euphemism of damn (intensifier)

   “"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."”

   ““What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!””