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
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
"How so?" asked Leuthold quietly, believing that he had destroyed every scrap of paper that could criminate him.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Nowadays we do not ask a prisoner to criminate himself.
From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Trumble, Alfred
Does not the law of England expressly declare that no man need criminate himself?
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James
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