scapegoat
11scapegoat — scape|goat1 [ skeıp,gout ] noun count someone who is blamed for something that is not their fault, especially because someone else wants to avoid being blamed: scapegoat for: She is being made a scapegoat for the commission s own mistakes.… …
12scapegoat — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ convenient, easy VERB + SCAPEGOAT ▪ become ▪ find ▪ make sb, use sb as …
13scapegoat — [16] In biblical times the ritual of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, included a ceremony involving two goats: one was sacrificed to God, and the other was sent off into the wilderness as the symbolic bearer of the people’s sins. This… …
14scapegoat — scape|goat [ˈskeıpgəut US gout] n [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: scape (from scape to get away (13 20 centuries), from escape) + goat; meant as a translation of Hebrew azazel (probably the name of an evil spirit in the Bible), as if it were ez ozel… …
15scapegoat — [[t]ske͟ɪpgoʊt[/t]] scapegoats, scapegoating, scapegoated 1) N COUNT: oft N for n 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… …
16Scapegoat — Lev. 16:8 26; R.V., the goat for Azazel (q.v.), the name given to the goat which was taken away into the wilderness on the day of Atonement (16:20 22). The priest made atonement over the scapegoat, laying Israel s guilt upon it, and then sent… …
17scapegoat — n. to make a scapegoat of smb. * * * [ skeɪpgəʊt] to make a scapegoat of smb …
18scapegoat — noun (C) someone who is blamed for something bad that happens, even if it is not their fault: He claimed he had been made a scapegoat for the administration s failures. scapegoat verb (T) …
19scapegoat — I. noun Etymology: 1scape; intended as translation of Hebrew ‘azāzēl (probably name of a demon), as if ‘ēz ōzēl goat that departs Leviticus 16:8(Authorized Version) Date: 1530 1. a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the… …
20scapegoat — noun 1》 a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings or mistakes of others. 2》 (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). verb make a scapegoat of.… …
