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Definition scapegoat

Etymology

From scape +‎ goat; coined by Tyndale, interpreting Hebrew ????????‎ (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from ???‎ (ez, “goat”) and ????‎ (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530.

Noun

scapegoat (plural scapegoats)

  1. In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
  2. Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.

Verb

scapegoat (third-person singular simple present scapegoats, present participle scapegoating, simple past and past participle scapegoated)

  1. (transitive) To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
  2. (transitive) To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.

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4 letter words with the letters SCAPEGOAT 
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3 letter words with the letters SCAPEGOAT 
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ACE 6
ACT 6
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AGE 5
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APE 6
APT 6
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ATE 3
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TAE 3
TAG 5
TAO 3
TAP 6
TAS 3
TEA 3
TEG 5
TOE 3
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TOP 6
2 letter words with the letters SCAPEGOAT 
AA 2
AE 2
AG 4
AS 2
AT 2
ES 2
ET 2
GO 4
OE 2
OP 5
OS 2
PA 5
PE 5
SO 2
TA 2
TO 2

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