Usually means: Person blamed for others' faults.
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  1. scapegoat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scapegoat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scapegoat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scapegoat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scapegoat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scapegoat, scapegoat: Wordnik
  7. scapegoat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scapegoat: Wiktionary
  9. scapegoat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scapegoat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scapegoat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scapegoat: Dictionary.com
  13. scapegoat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scapegoat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scapegoat (Takuto album), Scapegoat (band), Scapegoat (disambiguation), Scapegoat (film), Scapegoat, The Scapegoat (Cherryh novel), The Scapegoat (Du Maurier novel), The Scapegoat (audio drama), The Scapegoat (painting): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scapegoat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scapegoat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scapegoat: Rhymezone
  19. scapegoat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Scapegoat: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. Scapegoat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. scapegoat: Free Dictionary
  23. scapegoat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Scapegoat: The Word Detective
  25. scapegoat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. scapegoat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scapegoat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scapegoat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scapegoat: A Word A Day
  2. scapegoat: Idioms
  3. scapegoat: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scapegoat: Easton Bible
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Scapegoat: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

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