underblame

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English

Etymology

    From under- +‎ blame.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

    underblame (third-person singular simple present underblames, present participle underblaming, simple past and past participle underblamed)

    1. (transitive) To blame insufficiently; to absolve.
      Antonym: overblame
      • 1968, Cynthia Propper Seton, A Special and Curious Blessing, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 22:
        But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages.