Blame and Rake

Blame

Blame verb - To express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of.

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Rake and blame are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rake" instead a verb "Blame".

Nearby Words: blameless, blamed, blaming, blameful

Rake verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.

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Blame and rake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blame" instead a verb "Rake".

Nearby Words: raked, raker, raking

old	old blame	old rake
actual	actual blame	actual rake

blame player

rake player

Ursula previously mentioned that some of her customers couldn't pay the price for their spells so she had to "rake them across the coals," but does it in a way that puts the blame on the buyer and not her.

Source: Bad Samaritan
A staple of cheap romance novels of the "Rake meets Virgin" kind - of course, the hero would never rape a decent woman, but if he mistook the heroine for a prostitute, then he is only to blame for mistaking her for a prostitute ... as raping prostitutes is okay if he can pay.

Source: Mistaken for Prostitute

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