0 past simple and past participle of blame --
1 to say or think that someone or something did something wrong or is responsible for something bad happening: --
I don't blame him for getting angry - she's being really annoying.
Hugh blames his lack of confidence on his mother.
Hugh blames his mother for his lack of confidence.
These teachers blamed family conditions and parents, in particular, for students less motivated than themselves as children.
It still blamed the railway legacy of 'national characteristics from the geographical, technical and legal standpoints, their role ending at the frontiers of each country'.
Politicians and academics were publicly blamed for overlooking local interests.
These authors posit that residential care cannot be blamed for dependency and a gradual reliance on others.
Thus, drought, one of the greatest natural disasters intermittently confronting the nation, was blamed on political conflicts within the royal family.
All of the participants were asked whom or what they blamed most for the trauma.
The woman blamed the hairdresser with the apprentices who was smiling all the time.
The government accused these groups of being corrupt and inefficient producers, and blamed them for the high meat prices in the urban markets.