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scape·goat /ˈskeɪpˌgoʊt/ Show Spelled[skeyp-goht] Show IPA
–noun
1.a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
2.Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Lev. 16:8,10,26.
–verb (used with object)
3.to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
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