Incriminate

Definitions: Incriminate

Incriminate

Verb

1. Suggest that someone is guilty.

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

Date "incriminate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Note: Incriminate \In*crim"i*nate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Incriminated; present participle verb or noun Incriminating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Incriminate

Synonyms: accuse (v), criminate (v), impeach (v), imply (v), inculpate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incriminate

English words defined with "incriminate": Incriminated. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Uzbekistan	Although the law prohibits these practices, both police and the NSS routinely tortured, beat, and otherwise mistreated detainees to obtain confessions, which they then used to incriminate the detainees. (references)
	Belarus	Some observers claimed that Ignatovich was being drugged during the testimony phase of the trial so that he could not incriminate others; the authorities stated that he was semiconscious because he was on a hunger strike, but later the judge ordered him removed from the courtroom. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Incriminate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Incriminate" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	95%	38	55,818
Lexical Verb (base form)	5%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	40	N/A

Expression using "incriminate": incriminate oneself. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "incriminate": self-incriminate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "incriminate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		implikoj (inculpate), fajësoj (accuse, blame, convict, impute the fault to another, inculpate, rap), akuzoj (accuse, arraign, book, charge, criminate, impeach, indict, inform, inform against). (various references)

Arabic		‏ورط في جريمة (inculpate), ‏جرم (boat, criminalize, find guilty, mass, misdeed), ‏إتهم بجريمة (inculpate). (various references)

Bulgarian		обвинявам в престъпление (criminate, inculpate), замесвам в престъпление (inculpate), правя да изглежда виновен, инкриминирам. (various references)

Chinese		牵连 (implicate, implicated, Implicating, Incriminated, incriminating). (various references)

Czech		obvinit (accuse, condemn, delate, impeach, inculpate, indict, lay up blame, tax). (various references)

Farsi		مقصرقلمدادکردن , گناهکارقلمدادنمودن , گرفتارکردن (Enmesh, Entangle, Enwrap, Hook, Implicate, Involve, Tangle), تهمت زدن به , بگناه متهم کردن . (various references)

French		incriminer. (various references)

German		beschuldigen (accuse, blame, charge, impeach, inculpate, indict, to accuse, to blame, to incriminate). (various references)

Greek		ενοχοποιώ (frame, implicate, inculpate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"פליל (inculpate), ל�"רשיע (condemn, find guilty). (various references)

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

Indonesian		melibatkan (involve). (various references)

Italian		incriminare (accuse, article, book, inculpate, indict). (various references)

Manx		kyndaghey (charge, charge assert, commit, committal, criminate, crimination, incrimination, inculpate, inculpation), cur ass lieh. (various references)

Norwegian		belaste, anklage (impeachment). (various references)

Pig Latin		incriminateay

Portuguese		incriminar (accuse, criminate, frame up, inculpate, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold), crescente (Crescent, growing age, half round), acusar (accuse, acknowledge, blame, charge, complain, impeach, inculpate, indict, libel, make an accusation, own a car, reproach). (various references)

Romanian		incrimina (accuse, inculpate). (various references)

Russian		инкриминировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		okriviti (accuse, blame, charge, impeach, inculpate). (various references)

Spanish		incriminar (frame, inculpate), acriminar (accuse, inculpate). (various references)

Swedish		anklaga (accuse, arraign, charge, impeach, inculpate, indict, tag, tax, try). (various references)

Turkish		suçu yüklemek (cast the blame, damn, put the blame on smb.), suçlu çıkarmak, suçlamak (accuse, arraign, blame, bring an accusation against smb., censure, charge, charge smb. with smth., chastise, condemn, criminate, excoriate, impeach, impute, inculpate, indict, put in the dock, put the blame on smb., reproach, task, tax). (various references)

Ukranian		інкримінувати (criminate), обвинувачувати (accuse, argue, arraign, article, bill, delate, denounce, fault, impute, inculpate, indict). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incriminate": incriminated, incriminates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incriminate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incrymynate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incriminate" (pronounced i'nkri"munā't)
8	-k r i" m u n ā' t	discriminate.
6	-i" m u n ā' t	eliminate.
5	-m u n ā' t	contaminate, culminate, decontaminate, denominate, determinate, disseminate, dominate, emanate, exterminate, fulminate, germinate, illuminate, inseminate, nominate, predominate, renominate, ruminate, terminate.
4	-u n ā' t	agglutinate, alienate, assassinate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, decaffeinate, detonate, fascinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, impersonate, indoctrinate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, resonate, subordinate, titanate, urinate.
3	-n ā' t	designate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-i-m-n-n-r-t"
	-2 letters: anticrime, carnitine, criminate.
	-3 letters: citrinin, mannitic, trainmen, triennia.
	-4 letters: airtime, ancient, cannier, carmine, ceratin, certain, cinerin, citrine, creatin, crinite, entrain, inciter, inertia, interim, intimae, mannite, mantric, martini, minaret, mincier, minicar, mintier, narcein, nematic, neritic, raiment, remnant, tacrine, termini, tinnier.
	-5 letters: acetin, airmen, aminic, anemic, canine, canner, cannie, canter, carmen, carnet, carnie, centai, centra, cinema, citrin, cretin, enatic, encina, etamin, iatric, iceman, imaret, inaner, incant, incite, inmate, innate, intern, intima, intime, intine, irenic, iritic, manner, mantic, marine, marten, martin, metric, mincer, minter, mitier, narine, nectar, niacin, nitric, ratine, recant, remain, remint, retain, retina, tamein, tanner, tannic, tanrec, tinier, tinman, tinmen, tinner, trance.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-i-m-n-n-r-t"
	+1 letter: incriminated, incriminates.
	+2 letters: recriminating, recrimination.
	+3 letters: indiscriminate, recriminations, reminiscential.
	+4 letters: indeterminacies, omnidirectional.
	+5 letters: antireductionism, indiscriminately, necessitarianism, nonmaterialistic.
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