What does criminate mean?
Criminate means (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate..
‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […].’
In Germany, I had heard little of this terrible gang, and I had paid no greater heed to the stories related once or twice about them in Carlsruhe than one does to tales about ogres. But here in their very haunts, I learnt the full amount of the terror they inspired. No one would be legally responsible for any evidence criminating the murderer.
If this bee a crime to call Vanitie, Vanitie: the wisest man that euer was before Christ was herein criminate, not when hee strayed, but when hee repented.
Use criminate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Criminate means (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate..
Common synonyms include arraign, charge, incriminate, accriminate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […].’
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