criminate
[verb]
Synonyms: accuse, arraign, charge, impeach, incriminate, inculpate, indict, tax

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Antonyms: exonerate

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criminate verb trans. ['krɪmɪneɪt] M17.
[Latin criminat- pa. ppl stem of criminare, from crimin-, crimen CRIME noun: see -ATE³.]
1. Charge with crime; represent as criminal. M17.

2. Prove guilty of crime; incriminate. Now rare. M17.

3. Censure (a thing or action) as criminal; blame severely, condemn. M17.

■ crimi'nation noun the action or an act of criminating; (a) severe accusation or censure: L16.

■ criminative adjective tending to or involving crimination, accusatory M18.

■ criminator noun a person who criminates, an accuser LME.

■ criminatory adjective criminative L16.

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