plural of scapegoat

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scapegoat

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.

(transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

A person who makes a scapegoat of another person (punishes someone for another's wrongdoing)

The practice of holding somebody accountable as a scapegoat.

plural of scapegoatism

plural of scapegoater

Able to be made into a scapegoat.