To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; opposed to praise or commend, and applicable most properly to persons, but applied also to things. I withstood him, because he was to be blamed. Galatians 2:11. I must blame your conduct; or I must blame you for neglecting business. Legitimately, it cannot be followed by of.

To bring reproach upon; to blemish; to injure. She had blamed her noble blood.

Censure; reprehension; imputation of a fault; disapprobation; an expression of disapprobation for something deemed to be wrong. Let me bear the blame forever. Genesis 43:9.

Fault; crime; sin; that which is deserving of censure or disapprobation. That we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Ephesians 1:4.

Hurt; injury. And glancing down his shield, from blame him fairly blest. The sense of this word, as used by Spenser, proves that it is a derivative from the root of blemish. To blame, in the phrase, he is to blame, signifies blamable, to be blamed. Blame is not strictly a charge or accusation of a fault; but it implies an opinion in the censuring party, that the person censured is faulty. Blame is the act or expression of disapprobation for what is supposed to be wrong.