Synonyms for blame
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1. blame

   To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

   From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

   Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

   To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

   Synonyms:
   censure, condemn, convict, denounce, doom, reprobate, reprove, sentence

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

   Preposition:
   The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

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1. blame

   Synonyms:
   censure, chide, rebuke, reproach, vituperate, dispraise, disapprove, condemn, reprehend, reprobate, reprove

   Antonyms:
   acquit, exculpate, exonerate, encourage, praise, approve

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1. incrimination, inculpation, blamenoun

   an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed

   "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on the driver"

   Synonyms:
   rap, inculpation, incrimination

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, justify, absolve, free

2. blame, rapadjective

   a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

   "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"

   Synonyms:
   whack, knock, incrimination, hip-hop, strike, rap music, pat, belt, whang, rap, inculpation, tap

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, justify, absolve, free

3. blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernalverb

   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"; "an infernal nuisance"

   Synonyms:
   blasted, unsaved, doomed, damned, diabolic, unredeemed, blest, deuced, hellish, satanic, blamed, damn, goddam, fiendish, goddamned, unholy, darned, beatified, demonic, diabolical, goddamn, cursed, infernal, blessed

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, justify, free, absolve

4. blame, faultverb

   put or pin the blame on

   Synonyms:
   pick, fault, find fault, charge

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, justify, absolve, free

5. blame, find fault, pickverb

   harass with constant criticism

   "Don't always pick on your little brother"

   Synonyms:
   charge, pick, peck, cull, clean, beak, fault, nibble, plunk, break up, pluck, find fault, foot, piece

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, free, justify, absolve

6. blame, chargeverb

   attribute responsibility to

   "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"

   Synonyms:
   saddle, institutionalize, buck, fault, shoot down, commove, turn on, shoot, appoint, pick, agitate, rouse, consign, accuse, point, institutionalise, file, bill, find fault, tear, level, burden, charge, load, bear down, commit, charge up, excite, lodge, send

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, free, justify, absolve

Matched Categories

1. • Accusation
   • Charge
   • Criticize

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1. blameverb

   Synonyms:
   censure, reprove, reprehend, reflect upon, lay or cast blame upon, find fault with, cry out against

2. blamenoun

   Synonyms:
   censure, reprehension, animadversion, reproof, condemnation, imputation of fault

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1. blamenoun

   Synonyms:
   censure, reproach, reprehension, condemnation, stricture, animadversion, reproof, culpability, reprehensibility, demerit, wrongdoing, fault

2. blameverb

   Synonyms:
   censure, reproach

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1. List of paraphrases for "blame":

   fault, guilt, accuse, culpa, reproach, censure, responsibility, reprimand, culpability, guilty, debt

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1. List of known nicknames for "Blame":

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1. Celene Gelate:

   I blame the government, I blame the police, I blame the hotel, we were in a nice hotel and they didn't even have security. The police had to come all the way from Abidjan.

2. Rainer Maria Rilke:

   If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

3. Cleveland Browns:

   Hue Jackson has never ever accepted any responsibility for our record during that time period, he’s been masterful at pointing fingers but has never accepted any blame. I have accepted a ton of blame, and rightfully so. There are a lot of things I could’ve done better. Hue has never accepted blame for one thing.

4. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid:

   You can blame it on staff, blame it on whoever you want to blame it on, but we didn't know it was in the bill. The bill will not come off this floor as long as that language is in the bill.

5. Dan Quayle:

   When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.