Criminate

Definition: Criminate

Criminate

Verb

1. Bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "He charged the man with spousal abuse".

2. Rebuke formally.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "criminate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Synonyms: Criminate

Accusation

Brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account; (censure); take to blame, take to task; put in the black book.

Crosswords: Criminate

Albanian

dënoj (be exiled, castigate, censure, condemn, damn, declaim, delate, denounce, deprecate, discipline, doom, penalize, proscribe, punish, rap, reprehend, sentence, trounce), akuzoj (accuse, arraign, book, charge, impeach, incriminate, indict, inform, inform against). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обвинявам в престъпление (incriminate, inculpate), порицавам (anathematize, blame, censure, decry, lash, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, upbraid, wig). (various references)

Czech

usvìdèit (catch out, convict). (various references)

French

s'incriminer (to criminate oneself). (various references)

Hungarian

vádol (accuse, blame, charge, denounce, incriminate, inculpate, indict, to accuse, to charge, to impeach, to incriminate, to indict). (various references)

Manx

kyndaghey (charge, charge assert, commit, committal, crimination, incriminate, incrimination, inculpate, inculpation). (various references)

Pig Latin

iminatecray

Portuguese

incriminar (accuse, frame up, incriminate, inculpate, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold). (various references)

Romanian

acuza (accuse, arraign, article, bring a charge, charge, crime, impeach, inculpate, reprehend, swear), încrimina (charge). (various references)

Russian 

осуждать (condemn, convict, criticize, cry shame upon, damn, decry, denounce, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, judge, preach down, prejudge, rebuke), обвинять в преступлении (incriminate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

optužiti (accuse, book, charge, frame, indict, lay up blame), okriviti za zločin. (various references)

Spanish

criminar. (various references)

Turkish

suçlamak (accuse, arraign, blame, bring an accusation against smb., censure, charge, charge smb. with smth., chastise, condemn, excoriate, impeach, impute, incriminate, inculpate, indict, put in the dock, put the blame on smb., reproach, task, tax), itham etmek (accuse, charge, delate, impeach, impute). (various references)

Ukrainian

інкримінувати (incriminate), засуджувати (censure, condemn, sentence). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "criminate": criminated, criminates. (additional references)

Words ending with "criminate": discriminate, incriminate, indiscriminate, recriminate. (additional references)

Words containing "criminate": discriminated, discriminates, incriminated, incriminates, indiscriminately, indiscriminateness, indiscriminatenesses, recriminated, recriminates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Criminate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Criminale. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: anticrime.

-2 letters: airtime, carmine, ceratin, certain, citrine, creatin, crinite, inciter, inertia, interim, intimae, mantric, martini, minaret, mincier, minicar, mintier, nematic, neritic, raiment, tacrine, termini.

-3 letters: acetin, airmen, aminic, anemic, canter, carmen, carnet, carnie, centai, centra, cinema, citrin, cretin, enatic, etamin, iatric, iceman, imaret, incite, inmate, intima, intime, irenic, mantic, marine, marten, martin, metric, mincer.

+1 letter: criminated, criminates.

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+4 letters: actinometries, anisometropic, antirheumatic, antisymmetric, archimandrite, arithmetician, biometricians, ceremonialist, circumambient, cliometrician, commiserating, commiseration, craniometries, credentialism, criminalities, democratizing, determinacies, discriminated, discriminates, ferrimagnetic, geometricians, histaminergic, indeterminacy, intermetallic, interpandemic, mercantilisms, mercantilists, mercerization, microfilament, mistranscribe, racemizations, recombination, recompilation, recriminating, recrimination, recriminative, recriminatory, sectarianisms, triamcinolone, vermiculation.