SCAPEGOATS
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Scrabble
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WWF
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Definition
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.“He is making me a scapegoat.”
verb
- To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
- To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
Source: Wiktionary
