Definitions from Wiktionary (scapegoat)

▸ 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.
▸ Also see scapegoat


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