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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blame \Blame\ (bl[=a]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blamed}
     (bl[=a]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blaming}.] [OE. blamen, F.
     bl[^a]mer, OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme, LL.
     also to blame, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n to speak ill, to slander,
     to blaspheme, fr. bla`sfhmos evil speaking, perh, for
     blapsi`fhmos; bla`psis injury (fr. bla`ptein to injure) +


     fh`mh a saying, fr. fa`nai to say. Cf. {Blaspheme}, and see
     {Fame}.]
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     1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault
        with; to reproach.
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              We have none to blame but ourselves.  --Tillotson.
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     2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.]
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              She . . . blamed her noble blood.     --Spenser.
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     {To blame}, to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as,
        the conductor was to blame for the accident.
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              You were to blame, I must be plain with you. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blamed
       adj : 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"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an
             infernal nuisance" [syn: {blasted}, {blame}, {blessed},
              {damn}, {damned}, {darned}, {deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam},
              {goddamn}, {goddamned}, {infernal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "blamed":
     absolute, accused, arraigned, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed,
     bloody, charged, cited, complete, confounded, consummate,
     dadburned, damnable, danged, darn, darned, dashed, denounced,
     deuced, doggone, doggoned, downright, execrable, goldanged,
     goldarned, goshdarn, gross, impeached, implicated, impugned,
     in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, indicted, infernal,
     involved, out-and-out, perfect, rank, regular, reproached, ruddy,
     straight-out, tasked, taxed, under attack, under fire,
     unmitigated
  
  

















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