Blame vs Accumulation - What's the difference?
blame | accumulation |
Censure.
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
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* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace :
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 106:
(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
A mass of something piled up or collected.
(legal) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
(accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
(finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
As a verb blame
is .As a noun accumulation is
the act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.blame
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl)Noun
(-)- Blame came from all directions.
- The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
- They accepted the blame , but it was an accident.
Derived terms
* put the blame onSee also
* faultEtymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) blasmer, from . Compare (blaspheme)Verb
(blam)- though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame , yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
- These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
- That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary . The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.
- I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming .
- For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
- The arsonist was blamed for the fire.
Synonyms
* reproach, take to task, upbraid * (consider that someone is the cause of something negative) hold to accountDerived terms
* blamerAnagrams
* English reporting verbsaccumulation
English
Noun
(en noun)- an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors