"victim-blame" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: victim-blames [present, singular, third-person], victim-blaming [participle, present], victim-blamed [participle, past], victim-blamed [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from victim-blaming. Head templates: {{en-verb}} victim-blame (third-person singular simple present victim-blames, present participle victim-blaming, simple past and past participle victim-blamed)
  1. (transitive) To subject to victim-blaming; to blame and hold responsible (the victim of an attack, disease, etc for the attack which they have suffered). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-victim-blame-en-verb-4dhMY78h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1994, Explorations in Ethnic Studies: The Journal of the National Association of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies, volumes 17-18, page 157:",
          "text": "Original groups who suffer from the infection, particularly if the epidemic is a sexually transmitted disease, can be stigmatized and victim-blamed.",
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          "ref": "2007, Marcia C. Inhorn, Reproductive Disruptions, →ISBN, page 24:",
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        "(transitive) To subject to victim-blaming; to blame and hold responsible (the victim of an attack, disease, etc for the attack which they have suffered)."
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