criminate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to charge with a crime.
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to incriminate.
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to censure (something) as criminal; condemn.
verb
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to charge with a crime; accuse
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to condemn or censure (an action, event, etc)
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short for incriminate
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of criminate
First recorded in 1635–45; from Latin crīminātus, past participle of crīminārī “to accuse”; see origin at crime, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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This disclosure, if it exculpates you, will of course criminate her, and among those, too, where she has been received and admitted on terms of the closest friendship.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James
Nowadays we do not ask a prisoner to criminate himself.
From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Trumble, Alfred
I am too much of a lawyer," he said, "to criminate myself, pardner, and you'll have to excuse me from going into further details.
From The Mystery of the Locks by Howe, Edgar Watson
It's a flam and a humbug,—a fiction like the old story about an Englishman's house being his castle, or that balderdash, 'No man need criminate himself.'
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
The savage vehemence with which he uttered these words caused a shudder throughout the crowded court, and went even further to criminate him in popular opinion than all that had been alleged in evidence.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
Intellectuals were denied free expression; businessmen were dis criminated against in favor of nobles.
From Time Magazine Archive
I vindicated—I cleared—and yet no felon's dock for Jasper!—the son not criminated by the father's acquittal!
From What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
She is criminated by it, even past her father's contradiction—and he doesn't stick at a trifle!
From Basil by Collins, Wilkie
After his tongue got limbered up, and his memory refreshed, he criminated Ury.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington
The witnesses were fewer than at the Deemster's inquest, and they had nothing to say that directly criminated the fishermen.
From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir
I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Once some of the novelty wears off, Xerox users will probably learn to be a little more dis criminating about what they copy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus messages passed back and forth two or three times, each party criminating the other, and neither willing to make the concessions which the other required.
From Charles I Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
They seem to have visited the Dutch," writes Mr. Brodhead, "as inquisitors, to collect evidence criminating the Dutch and to collect no other evidence.
From Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
For, mother, every innocent thing I do is being woven into a net of criminating evidence.
From Bylow Hill by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
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