>>'Scapegoat' that's the word I was looking for.<<

... and referring to another thread, "Nouns as Verbs", I heard the word 'scapegoat' used as a verb on a BBC discussion recently. The speaker said, '...they feel a deep-seated need to scapegoat", and later, "...this leads to scapegoating".

It seems as if the practise of morphing (another noun-as-verb?) is becoming widespread, and worse, acceptable.