“blames” is a form of
blame
/bleɪm/ noun, verb, adjective
Forms blames blaming blamed blamest blamedst blameth
- noun Censure. “Blame came from all directions.”
- noun Culpability for something negative or undesirable. “The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.”
- noun Responsibility for something meriting censure. “They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.”
- noun (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
- verb (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 student driver was blamed for the accident.”
- verb (transitive, with "on") To assert the cause of some bad event. “We blamed the accident on the student driver.”
- verb To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
- verb (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
- adjective euphemism of damn (intensifier)
Synonyms
dispraise disapprobation disapproval attainder attainture attaintment censure condemnation condemning damnation improbation reprehension admonishment brickbatting castigation onus chastisement criticism critique discommendation incrimination inculpation rap fault find fault pick charge blasted blamed blessed
Antonyms
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”).
From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English wīten, from Old English wītan).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
- verb To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.]
- 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. Holy and without blame before him in love. Eph. i. 4.
Etymology [OE. blamen, F. blâr, OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme, LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury (fr. to injure) + a saying, fr. to say. Cf. Blaspheme, and see Fame.]
Etymology [OE. blame, fr. F. blâme, OF. blasme, fr. blâmer, OF. blasmer, to blame. See Blame, v.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “blame”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details