blaming Definition

blame
verb blamed, blaming

1. To consider them as responsible for (something bad, wrong or undesirable).

Example: blames himself for the accident
Form: blame someone for something (especially)
Form: blame something on someone
2. To find fault with someone.

Thesaurus: censure, condemn, rebuke, criticize, admonish, chide, take to task, reproach, reprove, upbraid, accuse, charge, indict, impute; Antonym: exonerate.

noun

1. Responsibility for something bad, wrong or undesirable.

Example: I refuse to take the blame
Thesaurus: responsibility, culpability, liability, accountability.
Form: the blame (especially)

Derivative: blamable
adj

Idiom: be to blame for something

To be responsible for (something bad, wrong or undesirable).

Etymology: 13c: from French blasmer, from Latin blasphemare to blaspheme.