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Definition: BLAMING |
BLAMINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Blame |
Date "BLAMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: BLAMINGSynonyms: Accusing, Censuring, Fault finding, Pointing the finger, Reproaching. (additional references) |
Crosswords: BLAMING |
| English words defined with "BLAMING": Fault-finding, forgive ♦ self-reproach, self-reproof ♦ To find fault. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh Marge, stop blaming yourself all the time! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Now you can't go blaming that on me. (Sanford and Son; writing credit: Earl Barret; Ted Bergman) So what are you blaming me for? (Volcano; writing credit: Jerome Armstrong) So they're blaming me, huh? (The Merry Widow; writing credit: Victor Leon) | |
Lyrics | Quit the blaming, Cut the naming, Cut the sleeping, Girl (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) Stop blaming me (He Wasn't Man Enough; performing artist: Toni Braxton) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Families must learn to accept and live with the seizures without blaming or resenting the affected person. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iran | According to HRW, economic decline, exacerbated by droughts and floods, led to blaming of Afghans for increasing unemployment and rising crime. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | However, on May 30, the RS National Assembly adopted a report blaming the Islamic community for creating a situation, by seeking to rebuild the mosque, in which violent demonstrations became likely. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Court files often contained letters from politicians about particular cases and politicians often make public statements blaming judges or prosecutors for carrying out their duties. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Next step, fat America will start blaming restaurants for being open. |
Rush Limbaugh | Christopher Reeve is blaming Bush for the fact that he can't walk because he opposes some stem cell research. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BLAMING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.65% of the time. "BLAMING" is used about 371 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 98.65% | 366 | 14,782 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.81% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 371 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BLAMING": listener-blaming, self-blaming, speaker-blaming, victim-blaming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blaming | 16 |
blaming the victim | 10 |
blaming stop | 5 |
blaming others | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLAMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 责备 (Blame, Blamed, Censure, Censured, Censuring, reproach, Reproached, Reproaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | blâmant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | tadelnd (animadverting, censuring, chiding, dispraising, objurgating, rebuking, rebukingly, reprehending, reproachful, reproving, vituperating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | που κατηγορεί. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מאשים (accuser, incriminatory, plaintiff, prosecutor), "שט " (accusation), "אשמ" (accusation, impeachment, indictment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 批議 (criticizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひぎ (censure, criticism, criticizing, ritual, sanctum sanctorum, secret ceremony, secret technique). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비난 (Accusation, Blame, Condemning, Damning, Faulting, Reproaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amingblay blamare (censure). (various references) suçlama (accusal, accusation, accusing, arraignment, blame, censure, charge, complaint, condemnation, crimination, denunciation, excoriation, impeachment, incrimination, inculpation, indictment, plaint, rap, reproach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BLAMING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balmano, Balmin, Bellarmin, blading, blaim, blaiming, blamen, blamming, blanning, blasing, blesmag, Blumine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BLAMING" (pronounced blā"ming) |
| 5 | -l ā" m i ng | acclaiming, claiming, disclaiming, exclaiming, flaming, inflaming, proclaiming, reclaiming. |
| 4 | -ā" m i ng | aiming, framing, gaming, maiming, naming, renaming, shaming, taming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | affirming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, fuming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, redeeming, reforming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ambling, lambing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-m-n" | |
-1 letter: baling, gimbal, laming, lingam, malign. | |
-2 letters: algin, align, binal, blain, gamin, liang, ligan, liman, limba, linga. | |
-3 letters: agin, amin, anil, bail, balm, bang, bani, bima, blam, blin, gain, gamb, glia, glib, glim, iamb, lain, lamb, lang, lima, limb, limn, ling, magi, mail, main, mina, nail. | |
-4 letters: ail, aim, ain, alb, ami, ani, bag, bal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-m-n" | |
+1 letter: gambling, marbling, rambling, wambling. | |
+2 letters: balsaming, becalming, bigeminal, brambling, embalming, emblazing, flambeing, gamboling, gimbaling, imbalming, imblazing, marblings, ramblings, shambling. | |
+3 letters: ambulating, assembling, clambering, embattling, gambolling, gimballing, imaginable, imaginably, impugnable, lambasting, ramblingly, scrambling. | |
+4 letters: amblygonite, bamboozling, beclamoring, beglamoring, blaspheming, emblazoning, embracingly, embrangling, impregnable, impregnably, mailbombing, marbleising, marbleizing, mislabeling, mislaboring, mothballing, sublimating, submarginal, subsampling, umbrellaing. | |
+5 letters: amblygonites, antigambling, automobiling, beglamouring, bilingualism, blackmailing, descrambling, magnetizable, metabolizing, misbalancing, mislabelling, reassembling, unimaginable, unimaginably, unscrambling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 41 4D 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- -- .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A M I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 004D 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36463547434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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