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blame

Pronunciation: /bleɪm/

The English word “blame” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Censure.
  2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
  3. Responsibility for something meriting censure.
  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).
  2. To assert the cause of some bad event.
  3. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
  4. To bring into disrepute.

adjective

  1. euphemism of damn (intensifier)

Etymology

From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native Old English tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”).

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