blaming
v.v. saying or thinking that someone is responsible for something bad that happened. You do this when you want to point out who caused a problem.
v. assigning responsibility for a fault, wrong, or failure to a specific person or entity. Often used in the present participle form to describe an ongoing state of accusation.
Stop blaming your sister for your own mistakes.
The manager is blaming the recent drop in sales on the new marketing strategy instead of the product quality.
Psychologists often observe that blaming others serves as a defense mechanism to protect one's ego from the discomfort of personal failure or poor decision-making.
From Middle English blamyng, blamynge, equivalent to blame + -ing.
From blame + -ing.
The verb is transitive; it typically follows the pattern 'blame someone for something' or 'blame something on someone'.
They are blaming for the accident.They are blaming him for the accident.Blame is a transitive verb and requires a direct object to show who is being accused.