BLAME
Verb
blame (third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)
- To censure (someone or something); to criticize. quotations ▼
- (obsolete) To bring into disrepute. quotations ▼
- (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
The student driver was blamed for the accident.
After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to them again.
- (transitive, with "on") To assert the cause of some bad event.
We blamed the accident on the student driver.