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
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The English law, with a tenderness then unknown, would now protect a man from all efforts to make him criminate himself.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
Nay, prisoner, you are not called on to say what may criminate you.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
His assertion would have been worthless, if it had stood alone; but it at least falls in with the numerous circumstances which all conjoin to criminate Pope.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
Even in England a man is not asked to criminate himself.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
"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 Wilhelmine von Hillern
Intellectuals were denied free expression; businessmen were dis criminated against in favor of nobles.
From Time Magazine Archive
These were, one very descriptive of the lady, and the other, of an incident in which this infamous woman was so deeply criminated.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
If the matter was not public, the delinquent was not to be criminated because he did not make it so.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
They concurred in everything which she had told me, and repeated, without any signs of shame or compunction, things which criminated themselves.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
She is criminated by it, even past her father's contradiction—and he doesn't stick at a trifle!
From Basil by Wilkie Collins
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
I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ...
From Time Magazine Archive
For this he was indebted to one of the girls who would not join the others in criminating him.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
My Lords, every answer that most of them have been required to make they are sensible they cannot make without danger of criminating themselves, being all involved in the crimes of the prisoner.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
In the impossibility of criminating living Jesuits, their worst enemies could only revile the dead.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas
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