victim-blame

English

Etymology

Back-formation from victim-blaming.

Verb

victim-blame (third-person singular simple present victim-blames, present participle victim-blaming, simple past and past participle victim-blamed)

1. (transitive) To subject to victim-blaming; to blame and hold responsible (the victim of an attack, disease, etc for the attack which they have suffered).
   • 1994, Explorations in Ethnic Studies: The Journal of the National Association of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies, volumes 17-18, page 157:

     Original groups who suffer from the infection, particularly if the epidemic is a sexually transmitted disease, can be stigmatized and victim-blamed.

   • 2007, Marcia C. Inhorn, Reproductive Disruptions, →ISBN, page 24:

     […] of women who have been utterly socially marginalized (and victim-blamed for their own drug problems) by mainstream US society.