a person made to bear the blame for others a goat used in the ritual of Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16); it was symbolically laden with the sins of the Israelites and sent into the wilderness to be destroyed
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to make a scapegoat of
scapegoatUK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈskeɪpgəʊt/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈskeɪpˌgoʊt/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(skāp′gōt′)
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025 scape•goat /ˈskeɪpˌgoʊt/USA pronunciation
n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
v. [~ + object]
scape•goat
(skāp′gōt′),USA pronunciation n.
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