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What is the difference between blame and upbraid?

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Upbraid is a synonym of blame.



In obsolete terms the difference between blame and upbraid

is that blame is to bring into disrepute while upbraid is to object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.

As nouns the difference between blame and upbraid

is that blame is censure while upbraid is the act of reproaching; contumely.

As verbs the difference between blame and upbraid

is that blame is to censure (someone or something); to criticize while upbraid is to criticize severely.

blame

English

Etymology 1

(etyl), from (etyl)

Noun

(-)
  • Censure.
    • Blame came from all directions.
  • Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
    • The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
  • Responsibility for something meriting censure.
    • They accepted the blame , but it was an accident.
    Derived terms
    * put the blame on
    See also
    * fault

    Etymology 2

    (etyl), from (etyl) blasmer, from . Compare (blaspheme)

    Verb

    (blam)
  • To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
    • 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.
  • * 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace :
    • 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.
  • * 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 106:
    • I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming .
  • (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
  • 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 arsonist was blamed for the fire.
    Synonyms
    * reproach, take to task, upbraid * (consider that someone is the cause of something negative) hold to account
    Derived terms
    * blamer

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs

    upbraid

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The act of reproaching; contumely.
  • * (rfdate),
    • Foul upbraid .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To criticize severely.
  • * Matthew 11:20 ,
    • Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.
  • * (rfdate),
    • How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
  • (archaic) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; – followed by with'' or ''for'', and formerly ''of , before the thing imputed.
  • * Mark 16:14 ,
    • And upbraided them with their unbelief.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet do not upbraid us our distress.
  • (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (archaic) To utter upbraidings.
  • To rise on the stomach; vomit; retch.

    • Synonyms

    * exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach