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    scapegoat
    /ˈskeɪpɡəʊt/

    noun

    • 1. a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
    • 2. (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).

    verb

    • 1. make a scapegoat of: "few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated"

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