BLAMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blamed mean? 

• BLAMED (adjective)
  The adjective BLAMED has 1 sense:

1. expletives used informally as intensifiers

  Familiarity information: BLAMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expletives used informally as intensifiers

Synonyms:

blame; blamed; blasted; blessed; damn; damned; darned; deuced; goddam; goddamn; goddamned; infernal

Context example:

an infernal nuisance

Similar:

cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)

 Context examples 

In Palu, although early reporting blamed most of the estimated 2,000 fatalities on a tsunami, surveys soon showed that soil-liquefaction landslides caused at least as much damage as the ocean waves did.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

That's how an experimental malnutrition test made with bacterial innards could work one day to expose widespread zinc deficiencies blamed for roughly half a million deaths annually.

(Test for life-threatening nutrient deficit is made from bacteria entrails, National Science Foundation)

I can understand that you are not to be blamed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Chocolate and greasy foods are often blamed, but there is little evidence that foods have much effect on acne in most people.

(Acne, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

How I cursed the cowardice of the neighbours; how I blamed my poor mother for her honesty and her greed, for her past foolhardiness and present weakness!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The lawyer liked this letter well enough; it put a better colour on the intimacy than he had looked for; and he blamed himself for some of his past suspicions.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Well,” returned my mother, half laughing, “and if she is so silly as to say so, can I be blamed for it?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She blamed herself for the extent of her fears, and resolved never to think so seriously on the subject again.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But I thought you blamed me.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)