transitive verb. To consider responsible for a misdeed, failure, or undesirable outcome.

transitive verb. To find fault with; criticize.

transitive verb. To place responsibility for (something).

noun. The state of being responsible for a fault or error; culpability.

noun. Censure; condemnation.

idiom. (to blame) Deserving censure or disapproval; at fault.

idiom. (to blame) Being the cause or source of something.

To express disapprobation of; find fault with; censure: opposed to praise or commend.

Formerly it might be followed by of.

To charge; impute as a fault; lay the responsibility of: as, he blames the failure on you.

To bring reproach upon; blemish; injure.

[In such phrases as he is to blame, to blame, by an old and common construction, has the passive meaning ‘to be blamed, blamable.’ Compare a house to let, hire, build; grain ready to cut, etc.

In writers of the Elizabethan period it was often written too blame, blame apparently being mistaken for an adjective.] Synonyms To reprove, reproach, chide, upbraid, reprehend. See decry.

noun. An expression of disapproval of something deemed to be wrong; imputation of a fault; censure; reprehension.

noun. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; fault; crime; sin.

noun. Culpability; responsibility for something that is wrong: as, the blame is yours.

noun. Hurt; injury.

transitive verb. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

transitive verb. To bring reproach upon; to blemish.

transitive verb. to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident.

noun. An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.

noun. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.

noun. Hurt; injury.

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

verb. To bring into disrepute.

verb. 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).

noun. Censure.

noun. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

noun. Responsibility for something meriting censure.

verb. harass with constant criticism

verb. put or pin the blame on

verb. attribute responsibility to

noun. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

noun. an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed

adjective. expletives used informally as intensifiers

"Now those boys were not wholly to blame for what they were doing; but their fathers and mothers were _very much to blame_!"

acquit  excuse  

censure  reprove  

cursed  curst  

blamer  put the blame on  

accuse  ascribe  assign  attribute  charge  

Ame  Boehme  Graeme  Mayme  Sejm  

approbation  censure  condemnation  contempt  disgrace  

account for  accountability  accounting for  accredit with  accrete to  

blamed  blames  blaming