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Definition of scapegoat:

(n) : 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; someone punished for the error or errors of someone else
"he is making me a scapegoat."
(v) : to punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of
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Definition of scapegoat:

(n) : 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; someone punished for the error or errors of someone else
"he is making me a scapegoat."
(v) : to punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of
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