TO BLAME

Definition: TO BLAME

TO BLAME

1. To be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident. You were to blame, I must be plain with you. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonym: TO BLAME

Accusation

Brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account; (censure); take to blame, take to task; put in the black book.

Disapprobation

Blameworthy, reprehensible; (guilt); to blame, worthy of blame; answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad; vicious.

Guilt

Adjective: guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.

Crosswords: TO BLAME

Since no one is to blame, I-- I demand no explanation. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

Someday, you're gonna find yourself all alone, with nobody to blame but yourself. (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

There is no one else to blame! (Scream 3; writing credit: Ehren Kruger)

The question now is not who's to blame, but how to stop it. (Crack in the World; writing credit: Jon Manchip White)

I can't really think that I was to blame, although at the time I was smoking. (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne)

No one, no one, no one ever is to blame (NO ONE IS TO BLAME; performing artist: Howard Jones)

Tell me who's to blame for thinkin' twice (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith)

We realized we're both to blame, but what could we do? (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

And you're to blame (You Give Love a Bad Name; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

Set a trap, they're not to blame (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M)

He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame. (references; author: unknown)

To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human. (references; author: unknown)

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. (references; author: unknown)

We Are Not to Blame (1989)

No One Is To Blame (performing artist: Howard Jones)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

I'm not to blame for being white, sir!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Who's to blame, schools or parents?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The King mine uncle is to blame for it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Low, subsidized water rates are to blame. (references)

Economic History

Nepal

An overworked and inefficient banking system is to blame. (references)

Germany

Structural factors are largely to blame for continuing high joblessness, and the government has so far not pursued significant labor market reforms needed to promote new job creation. (references)

Serbia and Montenegro

Managers tend to blame the dearth of interest on the current negative business climate in the F.R.Y. The Kragujevac-based "Zastava" automobile plant--heavily damaged during the recent NATO bombing--remains the most publicly discussed large privatization candidate. (references)

Human Rights

Portugal

Cardosa's family continued to blame the death on police mistreatment. (references)

Kenya

A subsequent public inquest into Kiogora's death was held, and the court ruled that no one was to blame for the death. (references)

Burundi

The Government continued to blame the rebels for the attack; rebels accused the armed forces of committing the killings. (references)

Minorities

Zimbabwe

Racial tensions have subsided since independence and remain low despite the Government's ongoing attempts to blame whites for the country's economic and political problems. (references)

Political Economy

SWITZERLAND

The SNB carefully watches for signs of upward pressure on the franc (the overvalued franc was partly to blame for the economic stagnation of the early/mid 1990s). The SNB has shown its willingness to follow an accommodating money supply policy, even to exceed its money supply growth targets when necessary, to minimize upward pressure on the franc. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "TO BLAME": be to blame ♦ be to blame for ♦ both to blame clause. Additional references.

Arabic 

لام. (various references)

Chinese 

譙 (drum tower, ridicule), 誚 (ridicule), 賴 (disclaim, rely), 責 (duty, responsibility, to reproach), 訶 (ridicule in loud voice), 埋 (bury), 怪 (queer). (various references)

Finnish

vika on minussa (I am to blame, it is my fault), syyttäkää itseänne (you have yourself to blame), syy on hänessä (he is to blame, I am to blame, it is my fault), olla syypää johonkin (be guilty of, be to blame for), moitittava (blamable, blameworthy, open to blame, reprehensible). (various references)

French

la faute incombe au bateau....contre lequel aucun recours ne peut cependant être exercé (m.v.....is to blame), clause de responsabilité partagée en cas d'abordage (both to blame collision clause), clause de collision contre la responsabilité réciproque (both to blame collision clause). (various references)

German

tadeln (castigate, censure, chide, criticize, dispraise, fault, lecture, objurgate, rebuke, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproaches, reproval, reprove, vituperate), vorwerfen (accuse, blame, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, to reproach), Schuld geben, blamieren (abash, blame, disgrace, put to shame, stultify, to stultify), beschuldigen (accuse, blame, charge, impeach, incriminate, inculpate, indict, to accuse, to incriminate). (various references)

Greek 

το σφάλμα βαρύνει το σκάφος....,κατά του οποίου όμως καμιά προσφυγή δεν μπορεί να γίνει (but no claim can be made against her, m.v.....is to blame). (various references)

Hungarian

okol (blame, to incriminate), hibáztat (blame, inculpate, to fault, to incriminate, to lay sg at sy's door). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

責める (to condemn, to criticize), �'�める (to aggravate, to find fault, to take someone to task). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せめる (to assault, to attack, to condemn, to criticize), とがめる (to aggravate, to find fault, to take someone to task). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ameblay

Romanian

fi de vinã (be to blame). (various references)

Russian 

быть виноватым (be to blame, feel bad). (various references)

Scottish

spreigeil (authoritative, prone to blame, undaunted). (various references)

Spanish

ser el culpable (be to blame), ser culpable (be to blame), cláusula de abordaje imputable a ambos buques (both to blame collision clause). (various references)

Turkish

kabahatli (at fault, blameworthy, culpable, guilty, offender, peccant). (various references)

Ukrainian

нести відповідальність (account, be to blame, have responsibility). (various references)

arguo, culpo, reprehendo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boatel, lobate, oblate, tombal.

-2 letters: amble, amole, blame, blate, bleat, bloat, botel, metal, motel, table.

-3 letters: abet, able, alme, aloe, alto, ambo, atom, bale, balm, bate, beam, beat, belt, bema, beta, blae, blam, blat, blet, blot, boat, bola, bole, bolt, bota, lamb, lame, late, loam, lobe, lota, mabe, male, malt, mate, meal, meat.

+2 letters: metabolic, molybdate, mountable.

+3 letters: ameloblast, automobile, blastoderm, blastomere, commutable, compatible, computable, ethambutol, fathomable, importable, lobsterman, metabolism, metabolite, metabolize, molybdates, mothballed, myeloblast, promotable.

+4 letters: abolishment, amblygonite, ameloblasts, amortizable, amphibolite, automatable, automobiled, automobiles, balletomane, biomaterial, biometrical, blameworthy, blastoderms, blastomeres, bloodstream, combatively, comfortable, committable, compactible, compatibles, demountable, ethambutols, footlambert, indomitable, megaloblast, melanoblast, mentionable, meroblastic, metabolisms, metabolites, metabolized, metabolizes, myeloblasts, problematic, rambouillet, tolbutamide.