Definitions for blames

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blames blame

Spelling: [bleym]

IPA: /bleɪm/

Blames is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in blames (abelms).

Definitions for blames

noun

1. an act of attributing fault; censure; reproof:
2. responsibility for anything deserving of censure:

Idioms

1. to blame, at fault; censurable:

verb (used with object)

1. to hold responsible; find fault with; censure:
2. to place the responsibility for (a fault, error, etc.) (usually followed by on):
3. Informal. blast; damn (used as a mild curse):

Origin of blames

1150-1200; (v.) Middle English blamen Anglo-French, Old French blasmer Vulgar Latin *blastēmāre, for Late Latin blasphēmāre to blaspheme; (noun) Middle English A

Examples for blames

No congratulations for those who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and then blame the poor for being poor.

When your obstinacy is equal to any other person's passion, blame not your brother.

And who can blame them for feeling disenfranchised when they see their efforts dwarfed by the mega donors.

Hand'll foreclose now, for sure; and I can't say I'll blame him.

They shield him, too; nobody who wants to reach their hearts must blame him.

If so, he has his silence -- on top of poor judgment -- to blame.

But tell me, Toinette, do you blame the feelings I have towards him?

“Most of the diseases we blame on nutrition are actually diseases of disempowerment,” Bacon said.

And in so many of these events, the pattern of “blame the victim” was quickly in evidence.

I don't believe he will blame me when he knows the circumstances.