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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Even in England a man is not asked to criminate himself.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James
Perhaps my anxious appearance may have struck him, for he quickly said,— "You will be specially warned against saying anything which might criminate yourself, so that you need have no fears on that account."
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
An accused person is not obliged to criminate himself.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon
Next day Moore was called, and, after objecting to the oath, took it with the express reservation that he should refuse to answer any question which might criminate his associates.
From Thomas Moore by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
He had sought out Papa Francoise hoping to win from him something that would criminate Alan Warburton, and to use him as a tool.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.
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? — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Many are the causes which may dissolve the bonds of faithless “conjurations;” and it is not always he who abandons a party who is to be criminated by political tergiversation.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
It is mournful to think how many recent writers have criminated our Church in consequence of their ignorance and inadvertence in not knowing, or not noticing, the contradistinction here meant between power and authority.
From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
It is mournful to think how many recent writers have criminated our Church in consequence of their own ignorance and inadvertence in not knowing, or not noticing, the contra-distinction here meant between power and authority.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
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
Let, then, the two moral systems, instead of criminating each other, act in concert, and attack vice at its opposite poles.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace
And yet there were those slavish enough to justify France, by criminating the American government.
From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Lossing, Benson John
There was a touch of McCoy senior in this barefaced attempt to divert attention from himself by criminating another.
From The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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