SCAPEGOAT
- a male goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur.
- a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur [n -S] / to make a scapegoat of [v SCAPEGOATED, SCAPEGOATING, SCAPEGOATS]
- one who is made to bear the blame for others
- The CFO was made the scapegoat for the companys failures.
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