Blame vs. Accused — What's the Difference?

Blame is the act of censuring, holding responsible, making negative statements about an individual or group that their action or actions are socially or morally irresponsible, the opposite of praise. When someone is morally responsible for doing something wrong, their action is blameworthy.

A person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime

To consider responsible for a misdeed, failure, or undesirable outcome

The defendant in a criminal case.

To find fault with; criticize

Simple past tense and past participle of accuse

To place responsibility for (something)

(legal) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.

The state of being responsible for a fault or error; culpability.

Having been accused; being the target of accusations.

Censure; condemnation

Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

Censure.

A defendant in a criminal proceeding

Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

Responsibility for something meriting censure.

(computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.

To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

To assert the cause of some bad event.

To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

To bring reproach upon; to blemish.

An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.

That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.

Hurt; injury.

An accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed;

A reproach for some lapse or misdeed;

Put or pin the blame on

Harass with constant criticism;

Attribute responsibility to;

Expletives used informally as intensifiers;