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BLAMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expletives used informally as intensifiers
Example:
an infernal nuisance
Synonyms:
blame; blamed; blasted; blessed; damn; damned; darned; deuced; goddam; goddamn; goddamned; infernal
Classified under:
Similar:
cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb blame
Context examples:
"Really, girls, you are both to be blamed," said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I blamed none of those who repulsed me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Hitherto I had blamed only the servants, but now a terrible fear began to assail me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"And you—you ain't never fed 'm after them first days of gettin' acquainted. I'm blamed if I can see how he works it out that you're the boss."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The paper blamed India’s ‘green revolution’ in the mid-1960s, which focused on cultivation of wheat and rice to meet food security demands, for the decline of the area of coarse cereals.
(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)
Willoughby, poor Willoughby, as she now allowed herself to call him, was constantly in her thoughts; she would not but have heard his vindication for the world, and now blamed, now acquitted herself for having judged him so harshly before.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You blamed me for coming?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Scarcely, however, had he tasted the bitter sea-water when he became worse even than he was before; and then both the elder sons came in, and blamed the youngest for what they had done; and said that he wanted to poison their father, but that they had found the Water of Life, and had brought it with them.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; neither do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
That was what it was, thought I, to have the captain wounded; and again I blamed myself sharply for leaving them in that danger with so few to mount guard.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
