blame

Meaning

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 censure (someone or something); to criticize.
2. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
3. 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. To assert the cause of some bad event.

Adj

euphemism of damn (intensifier)

Concepts

blame

censure

reproach

accuse

rebuke

reprimand

scold

reprove

fault

charge

criticize

condemn

guilt

accusation

upbraid

find fault with

abuse

find fault

responsibility

reproof

complain

criticise

revile

tell off

indict

admonish

denunciation

ridicule

slander

curse

criticism

denounce

impeach

exhort

accusal

allegation

complaint

grievance

indictment

lament

condemnation

chide

grumble

damn

incriminate

sin

inculpate

decry

calumniate

attack

allege

rap

inculpation

despise

disapprove

attribute

protest

defame

reprobate

liability

defect

culpability

judge

error

crime

threaten

knock

reclaim

recoup

recover

reimburse

repay

disparage

calumny

reprehend

speak ill of

disrepute

resent

disdain

rejection

persecution

imputation

accuse falsely

gossip

object

comment

express disapproval

animadversion

stricture

traduce

reviling

blemish

blaming

blamed

blasted

blessed

damned

darned

deuced

goddam

goddamn

goddamned

infernal

pick

incrimination

disapproval

disapprobation

stigma

attribute to

lie

suspect

culpableness

guiltiness

arraign

impute

prosecute

regret

repent

bellow

boom

howl

intimidate

loom

menace

rage

roar

guilty

regain

charge with a crime

criticize severely

impugn

begrudge

belittle

upbraiding

lay the blame on

animadvert

reflect upon

vilify

attribute responsibility to

at fault

in the wrong

bear a grudge

feel bitter

remarriage

second marriage

maltreatment

pangs

torture

aggravate

challenge

take someone to task

persecute

torment

scandal

berate

remonstrate

pick on

talk to

pleasure

pleasure talk to

talk

caution

warn

dress someone down

mock

satirize

give evidence against

castigate

chasten

chastise

assault

get even with

tackle

arraignment

reprobation

contempt

taunt

weak point

approach

defamation

detraction

reprozch

chiding

objurgation

redargue

set-down

twit

conviction

deride

ascribe to

blame falsely

lay blame upon

speak against

consequences

reproach for

apologize

hire

backbite

criminality

implication

liableness

accountability

deprecate

slur

reprehension

hold responsible

answer for

dispute

quarrel

hellish

cause

grain

occasion

reason

wherefore

why

adjudicate

recriminate

try

failure

flaw

glitch

impairment

imperfection

kink

mar

shortcoming

wrinkle

mistake

accusations

reproaching

betray

malign

ruin

excuses

make excuses

hit

poke

touch

harm

oppose

complain against

implicate

rating

goblin

marvelous

monster

monstrous

strange

uncanny

transgression

duty

weight

put the blame on

pity

misdeed

laugh loudly

expel

grieve

sorrowful

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bleɪm/

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”).