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Word: Scapegoat
Speech Type: Noun
mid 16th century: from archaic scape ‘escape’ + goat
ˈskeɪpɡəʊt
a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
Short Definition:person who is blamed for wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
Short Definition:(in Bible) goat sent into wilderness after Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid sins of people upon it
Word: Scapegoat
Speech Type: Verb
ˈskeɪpɡəʊt
make a scapegoat of
Short Definition:make scapegoat of
Examples:- few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated
- it makes little sense to scapegoat the poor
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