scapegoat

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “And Aarõ caſt lottes ouer the .ij. gootes: one lotte for the Lorde, ãd another for a ſcapegoote.”

2. isim Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.

   “He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!”

3. fiil To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

   “People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.”