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Definition of Incriminate
1. Verb. Suggest that someone is guilty.
Generic synonyms: Evoke, Paint A Picture, Suggest
Derivative terms: Implication, Implication, Crime, Crime, Incrimination, Incriminatory, Inculpation, Inculpative, Inculpatory
2. Verb. Bring an accusation against; level a charge against. "They want to incriminate the prisoners "; "The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse"
Specialized synonyms: Reproach, Upbraid, Arraign, Recriminate, Charge, File, Lodge
Generic synonyms: Accuse, Charge
Derivative terms: Accusal, Accusation, Accusative, Accusatory, Accuser, Accusive, Crime, Criminative, Criminatory, Crime, Incrimination
Definition of Incriminate
1. v. t. To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
Definition of Incriminate
1. Verb. (transitive) To accuse or bring criminal charges against. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To indicate the guilt of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incriminate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incriminate
Literary usage of Incriminate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1916)
"cannot refuse to produce its books and papers on subpoena issued at the instance-
of the grand jury, because the contents thereof would incriminate it, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Federal Corporation Tax Law: Including Therein a by Thomas Gold Frost (1911)
"The Federal Corporation Tax Does Not Subject Corporations to Unreasonable Search
or Seizures, or Require Officers Thereof to incriminate Themselves. ..."
3. Shippers and Carriers of Interstate and Intrastate Freight by Edgar Watkins (1920)
"Witnesses Not Excused Because Testimony May incriminate. 391. Right to Take
Testimony by Depositions and the Manner Thereof Prescribed. 392. ..."
4. The Law Relating to Interrogatories, Production, Inspection of Documents and by Walter Sydney Sichel, William Chance (1883)
"As tending to incriminate the person from whom the discovery is required, or
materially to discredit him, apart from the action in which it is required, ..."
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