get
My brother broke the window, but I got the blame.

accept, bear, shoulder, take
The company refused to accept any blame for the damage.

apportion (esp. BrE), attach, attribute, lay, pin, place, put
They placed the blame squarely on the doctor.

share
The government must share the blame for this confusion.

escape, shift
They tried to shift the blame onto someone else.

absolve sb from, absolve sb of
He was absolved of all blame.

fall on sb, lie with sb, rest with sb
The blame lies with the police, who failed to act quickly enough.

blame for
He tried to escape blame for what he did.

lay the blame at sb's door (BrE)
The government tried to lay the blame at the door of the unions.

part of the blame, a share of the blame

unfairly, unjustly
partly
not really
You can't really blame them for not telling you.

widely
He is widely blamed for masterminding the attacks.

can't, don't
‘I just slammed the phone down when he said that.’ ‘I don't blame you!’

can hardly
You can hardly blame Peter for being angry with her.

for
I don't blame Jack for the mistake.

on
Whenever something goes wrong, everyone blames it on me.

be to blame (for sth)
A spokesman said that bad weather was partly to blame for the delay.

be widely blamed for sth
The government has been widely blamed for the crisis.

Blame is used with these nouns as the subject:
enquiry, report

Blame is used with these nouns as the object:
failure, media, problem, system, victim