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Word: scapegoat
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Meaning:
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.
- Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
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Verb:
- transitive To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
- transitive To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
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