Definizione monolingua

blame

blame (third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)

1. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

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

   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1:

     These peculiarities of Dorotheas character caused Mr. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.

   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 106:

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

2. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

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

3. (transitive, usually followed by ""for"") 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 arsonist was blamed for the fire.

blame (uncountable)

1. Censure.

   Blame came from all directions.

2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

   The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.

3. Responsibility for something meriting censure.

   They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.

Definizione dizionario blame

	colpa
	state of having caused a bad event

	incolpare
	place blame upon

accusa

accusare

riprendere

attribuire

biasimare

biasimo

biàsimo

censura

censurare

colpevole

critica

criticare

denuncia

imputazione

incriminazione

lamentela

minacciare

muggire

protesta

redarguire

responsabilità

rimproverare

rimprovero

riprovazione

Altri significati:

(transitive, usually followed by "for") 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).

aggravate (an injury)

Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

Responsibility for something meriting censure.

Censure.

(to) blame

To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.

pangs (of conscience)