incriminate.
To accuse or bring criminal charges against.
Meaning & usage
To accuse or bring criminal charges against.
The newspapers incriminated the innocent man unjustly.
To indicate the guilt of.
We have all sorts of evidence which incriminates you.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin incrīminātus, perfect passive participle of Latin incrīminō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). First attested in 1736. By surface analysis, in- + criminate.
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