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Definition of Scapegoat
1. Noun. Someone who is punished for the errors of others.
Definition of Scapegoat
1. n. A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
Definition of Scapegoat
1. 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. ¹
2. Noun. Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scapegoat
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
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