Criminate

Quick meaning: Criminate is a verb meaning (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate.

Meaning

(transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone).
2. (as a participle) Criminated.

Example Sentences

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.

‘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.

Word Forms

• criminates
• criminating
• criminated

Synonyms for criminate

Depending on context, synonyms include arraign, charge, incriminate, accriminate, accuse, appeach.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incriminate, accuse, censure, reprimand, impeach, inculpate.

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