scapegoat (36 synonym found)

Scapegoat has 36 synonyms. The top synonyms for scapegoat are burnt offering, collection, drink offering, ex voto offering, fall guy, front, goat, gull and 28 more. Browse the full list below.

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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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