Scapegoat (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
  2. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Leviticus 16:8,10,26.
verb (used with object)
  1. to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
noun
  1. a person made to bear the blame for others
  2. a goat used in the ritual of Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16); it was symbolically laden with the sins of the Israelites and sent into the wilderness to be destroyed
verb
  1. to make a scapegoat of
Scapegoat (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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