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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blame \Blame\ (bl[=a]m), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blamed} (bl[=a]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blaming}.] [OE. blamen, F. bl[^a]mer, OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme, LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n to speak ill, to slander, to blaspheme, fr. bla'sfhmos evil speaking, perh, for blapsi'fhmos; bla'psis injury (fr. bla'ptein to injure) + fh'mh a saying, fr. fa'nai to say. Cf. {Blaspheme}, and see {Fame}.]
1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
We have none to blame but ourselves. --Tillotson.
2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.]
She . . . blamed her noble blood. --Spenser.
{To blame}, to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident.
You were to blame, I must be plain with you. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blamed
adjective: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: {blasted}, {blame}, {blessed}, {damn}, {damned}, {darned}, {deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned}, {infernal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "blamed": absolute, accused, arraigned, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, bloody, charged, cited, complete, confounded, consummate, dadburned, damnable, danged, darn, darned, dashed, denounced, deuced, doggone, doggoned, downright, execrable, goldanged, goldarned, goshdarn, gross, impeached, implicated, impugned, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, indicted, infernal, involved, out-and-out, perfect, rank, regular, reproached, ruddy, straight-out, tasked, taxed, under attack, under fire, unmitigated
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