"incriminate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɪŋˈkɹɪmɪneɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-incriminate.wav Forms: incriminates [present, singular, third-person], incriminating [participle, present], incriminated [participle, past], incriminated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin incriminatum, past participle of incrimino, from Latin in + crimino. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*krey-}}, {{bor|en|ML.|incriminatum}} Medieval Latin incriminatum, {{der|en|la|in}} Latin in Head templates: {{en-verb}} incriminate (third-person singular simple present incriminates, present participle incriminating, simple past and past participle incriminated)
  1. (transitive) To accuse or bring criminal charges against. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Criminal law Translations (to accuse or bring criminal charges against): inculpar (Catalan), syyttää (Finnish), beschuldigen (German), ενοχοποιώ (enochopoió) (Greek), הפליל (hiflíl) (Hebrew), ciontaigh (Irish), inkryminować [imperfective] (Polish), obwiniać [imperfective] (Polish), obwinić [perfective] (Polish), oskarżać [imperfective] (Polish), oskarżyć [perfective] (Polish), incriminar (Portuguese), incrimina (Romanian), інкримінува́ти (inkryminuváty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-incriminate-en-verb-Om9sCthd Disambiguation of Criminal law: 89 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of 'to accuse or bring criminal charges against': 99 1
  2. (transitive) To indicate the guilt of. Tags: transitive Translations (to indicate the guilt of): incriminar (Catalan), osoittaa syylliseksi (Finnish), viitata syyllisyyteen (Finnish), belasten (German), whakahīrau (Maori), obciążać [imperfective] (Polish), obciążyć [perfective] (Polish), incriminar (Portuguese), incrimina (Romanian), inculpa (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-incriminate-en-verb-CzbkTkW1 Disambiguation of 'to indicate the guilt of': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: self-incriminate Related terms: criminate, incrimination, get the goods on

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To accuse or bring criminal charges against."
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          "word": "inculpar"
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          "sense": "to accuse or bring criminal charges against",
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          "sense": "to accuse or bring criminal charges against",
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          "sense": "to accuse or bring criminal charges against",
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        "(transitive) To indicate the guilt of."
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          "word": "incriminar"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
          "word": "belasten"
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          "lang": "Maori",
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
          "word": "inculpa"
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      "sense": "to accuse or bring criminal charges against",
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      "sense": "to accuse or bring criminal charges against",
      "word": "incrimina"
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      "roman": "inkryminuváty",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
      "word": "osoittaa syylliseksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
      "word": "viitata syyllisyyteen"
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      "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
      "word": "belasten"
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      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
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      "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
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      "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
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      "word": "incriminar"
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      "sense": "to indicate the guilt of",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.