"self-incriminate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: self-incriminates [present, singular, third-person], self-incriminating [participle, present], self-incriminated [participle, past], self-incriminated [past]
Etymology: self- + incriminate Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|incriminate}} self- + incriminate Head templates: {{en-verb}} self-incriminate (third-person singular simple present self-incriminates, present participle self-incriminating, simple past and past participle self-incriminated)
  1. (intransitive) To incriminate oneself. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Criminal law Related terms: self-incrimination Translations (incriminate oneself): 自證其罪 (Chinese Mandarin), 自证其罪 (zìzhèngqízuì) (Chinese Mandarin), syyllistää itsensä (Finnish), kriminoida itsensä (Finnish), auto-incriminer (French), autoinculparse (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-self-incriminate-en-verb-d6Dru0zV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with self-

Inflected forms

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