Scapegoat in English dictionary

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    Meanings and definitions of "Scapegoat"

    • In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
    • Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
    • (transitive) To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
    • (transitive) To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
    • noun
      In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
    • noun
      Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
    • a goat imbued with the sins of the people
    • someone punished for someone else's error(s)
    • to punish someone for the error of someone else
    • To punish someone for the errors of someone else.
    • sacrifice (of, to)
    • Someone who is punished for the errors of others.
    • noun
      someone who is punished for the errors of others

    Synonyms of "Scapegoat" in English dictionary

    whipping boy, victim, whipping boy are the top synonyms of "Scapegoat" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Scapegoat

    • scapegoat ( third-person singular simple present scapegoats, present participle scapegoating, simple past and past participle scapegoated)
    • scapegoat ( plural  scapegoats)
    • scapegoat (plural scapegoats)
    • scapegoat (third-person singular simple present scapegoats, present participle scapegoating, simple past and past participle scapegoated)
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