Толковый словарь английского языка - blame
Blame
blame
I. transitive verb (~d; blaming) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~r, blasmer, from Late Latin blasphemare to blaspheme, from Greek blasphēmein Date: 13th century to find fault with ; censure , 2. to hold responsible , to place responsibility for , ~r noun Usage: Use of ~ in sense 2b with on has occasionally been disparaged as wrong. Such disparagement is without basis; ~ on occurs as frequently in carefully edited prose as ~ for. Both are standard. II. noun Date: 13th century an expression of disapproval or reproach ; censure , 2. a state of being ~worthy ; culpability, fault , sin , responsibility for something believed to deserve censure , ~less adjective ~lessly adverb ~lessness noun
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v. & n. --v.tr. 1 assign fault or responsibility to. 2 (foll. by on) assign the responsibility for (an error or wrong) to a person etc. (blamed his death on a poor diet). --n. 1 responsibility for a bad result; culpability (shared the blame equally; put the blame on the bad weather). 2 the act of blaming or attributing responsibility; censure (she got all the blame). Phrases and idioms be to blame (often foll. by for) be responsible; deserve censure (she is not to blame for the accident). have only oneself to blame be solely responsible (for something one suffers). I don't blame you etc. I think your etc. action was justifiable. Derivatives blameable adj. Etymology: ME f. OF bla(s)mer (v.), blame (n.) f. pop.L blastemare f. eccl.L blasphemare reproach f. Gk blasphemeo blaspheme ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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