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say it: blaym
blame is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "put or pin the blame on". It is pronounced /ˈbleɪm/ — blaym. It carries 6 recorded senses.
an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed
“his incrimination was based on my testimony”
“the police laid the blame on the driver”
expletives used informally as intensifiers
“he's a blasted idiot”
“it's a blamed shame”
“a blame cold winter”
“not a blessed dime”
“I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing”
“he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool”
“a deuced idiot”
“an infernal nuisance”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blame come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.