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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blamed
adj
  1. 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"; "an infernal nuisance"
    Synonym(s): blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blame \Blame\ (bl[amac]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blamed}
      (bl[amac]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blaming}.] [OE. blamen, F.
      bl[83]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.
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