SCAPEGOAT is validvalid

[v SCAPEGOATED, SCAPEGOATING, SCAPEGOATS] : SCAPEGOATING [n]

112,875 of 196,601 in NWL2023·also valid in CSW24

a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur [n -S] / to make a scapegoat of [v -ED, -ING, -S]