English-Bulgarian translations for scapegoat

• же́ртвен козе́л

Definition 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
• Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else
• To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of
• To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim

Examples

• He is making me a scapegoat.

Related words

• scape
• escape
• landscape
• moonscape
• townscape
• cityscape
• seascape
• streetscape
• escapee