blames
SayBLAYMZ/bleɪmz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of blame.
The report blames poor maintenance for the bridge collapse.
He never blames the weather for his own mistakes on the road.
Note
The form a singular subject takes in the present: he blames, the report blames, nobody blames. It carries every sense of the transitive verb: pinning responsibility on a person, naming the cause of a bad event, or simply finding fault. The usual pattern is blames someone or something for the harm. Because the noun blame is uncountable, a word spelled blames is almost always this verb form.
blames is a form of blame
blame, verb: To hold a person or thing responsible for something bad; to say that a fault or bad outcome was caused by them. Full entry
- Spelling
- blame → blames: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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