ALL meanings of scapegoat
scape·goat
S s - noun scapegoat person: blamed for others 1
- noun scapegoat Bible: goat representing sins 1
- transitive verb scapegoat blame for others 1
- noun scapegoat a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place. 1
- noun scapegoat Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Lev. 16:8,10,26. 1
- verb with object scapegoat to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors. 1
- noun scapegoat a person made to bear the blame for others 0
- noun scapegoat a goat used in the ritual of Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16); it was symbolically laden with the sins of the Israelites and sent into the wilderness to be destroyed 0
- verb scapegoat to make a scapegoat of 0
- noun scapegoat a goat over the head of which the high priest of the ancient Jews confessed the sins of the people on the Day of Atonement, after which it was allowed to escape: Lev. 16:7-26 0
- noun scapegoat a person, group, or thing upon whom the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others is thrust 0
- countable noun scapegoat If you say that someone is made a scapegoat for something bad that has happened, you mean that people blame them and may punish them for it although it may not be their fault. 0
- verb scapegoat To scapegoat someone means to blame them publicly for something bad that has happened, even though it was not their fault. 0