Definition of scrapegoat:
°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.
"He is making me a scapegoat."
°To
punish someone for the
error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
°To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
Definition of scrapegoat:
°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.
"He is making me a scapegoat."
°To
punish someone for the
error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
°To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.