overblame

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ blame.

Pronunciation

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Verb

overblame (third-person singular simple present overblames, present participle overblaming, simple past and past participle overblamed)

1. (transitive) To blame excessively.
   • 1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 25:

     When all is said, however, it is easy to overblame the cinema, to exaggerate the actual harm and ignore the possible good.

   • 1968, Cynthia Propper Seton, A Special and Curious Blessing, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 22:

     But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages.