Incriminate

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  • transitive verb. To accuse of a crime or other wrongful act.
  • transitive verb. To cause to appear guilty of a crime or fault; implicate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To charge with a crime; accuse; criminate.
  • To make a subject of accusation; charge as a crime.
  • Synonyms Accuse, Charge, Indict, etc. See accuse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To accuse or bring criminal charges against.
  • verb. To indicate the guilt of.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. suggest that someone is guilty
  • verb. bring an accusation against; level a charge against
  • Word Usage
    "Under Scottish law at present, suspects can be questioned by police for six hours without a lawyer, but yesterday the supreme court found that the measure made it more likely that suspects might "incriminate" themselves while being quizzed by officers."
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