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Incriminate   /ɪnkrˈɪmənˌeɪt/   Listen
Incriminate

verb
(past & past part. incriminated; pres. part. incriminating)
1.
Suggest that someone is guilty.  Synonyms: imply, inculpate.
2.
Bring an accusation against; level a charge against.  Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach.






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"Incriminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... own mouth a fitting test is set, which if Kai Lung can agreeably perform will at once demonstrate a secret and a guilty confederacy between you both. Proceed, O story-teller, to incriminate ...
— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah

... doubtful character; indeed, respectable men could hardly have been persuaded to do the work. Their methods were certainly harsh; the object of their mission was to get up a case for the Crown, and they probably used every means in their power to induce the monks and the nuns to incriminate themselves. Perhaps, too, an entirely false impression may be created by the fact that in most cases only the guilty are mentioned; the innocent are often passed over in silence, and the proportion between the two is not recorded. Some ...
— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard

... see that you will be easier if I go. I will begone first and see whether James has the horses out; and you had best meanwhile go to my chamber and put away all that can incriminate you—in one of ...
— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson

... you have any trouble of any kind with this deceased Mexican, Mr. Creede? Of course you don't need to answer that if it will incriminate you, but I just ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge

... or two other articles, such as a revolver, about me. I saw that although they were apparently harmless, and could be fully explained, they would incriminate me only still more. I promptly got rid of them. I had half-a-mind to discard my little camera also, but somehow or other I could not bring myself to part with this. I thought it might come in useful. Moreover there was very little likelihood of it being discovered unless I was stripped. ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney

... declaration of the real revolutionary principles of their party and a sufficiently explicit identification of the party with the Moscow International to satisfy both the rank and file of their followers and Lenine and Trotzky in Russia, while yet not going far enough to incriminate themselves with the awakening suspicions of our National and State Governments. As a result we have the utterances of the Emergency Convention of August-September, 1919, where every compromising word was still only a ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... in his seat. He knew she was within her legal rights. He couldn't bully her into saying anything that would incriminate ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow



Words linked to "Incriminate" :   paint a picture, reproach, arraign, lodge, charge, suggest, impeach, file, evoke, imply, upbraid, crime, recriminate, incrimination, incriminatory



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