underblame en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From under- + blame.
Meanings
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(transitive) To blame insufficiently; to absolve.
But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages.
1968, Cynthia Propper Seton, A Special and Curious Blessing, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 22:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| underblaming | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| underblames | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| underblamed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| underblamed | Tense=Past | lexicographic |