The meaning of Incriminate

Incriminate – definition

verb
Make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing.
Usage examples:
He refused to answer questions in order not to incriminate himself
Synonims:
Implicate Involve Blame Accuse Denounce Inform against Blacken the name of Entrap Frame Set up Point the finger at Stick/pin the blame on Rat on Grass on Fit up Inculpate

verb
To seem to show that someone is guilty of a crime
Usage examples:
He refused to say anything on the grounds that he might incriminate himself., incriminating evidenc…

Incriminate translation into English

Incriminate: translate from English into Chinese

控诉, 归罪于, 归罪

Incriminate: translate from English into Dutch

Beschuldigen

Incriminate: translate from English into French

Incriminer

Incriminate: translate from English into German

Belasten, Inkriminieren

Incriminate: translate from English into Hindi

दोषी ठहराना, अभियोग लगाना, दोष लगाना, अभिशस्त करना, दोषारोपण करना, इलजाम लगाना, अपराध में फँसाना

Incriminate: translate from English into Italian

Incriminare

Incriminate: translate from English into Korean

기소하다, ...에게 죄가 있다고 하다, 유죄로 하다, ...에게 책임이 있다고 하다

Incriminate: translate from English into Russian

Инкриминировать, Обвинять, Изобличать, Обвинять в преступлении

Incriminate: translate from English into Spanish

Incriminar, Inculpar, Acusar, Culpar, Acriminar

Word origin

mid 18th century (earlier (mid 17th century) as incrimination ): from late Latin incriminat- ‘accused’, from the verb incriminare, from in- ‘into, towards’ + Latin crimen ‘crime’.

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Incriminate – similar words

incrimination

noun
The act or process of making someone seem guilty, especially of a crime
Usage examples:
He destroyed the receipt to avoid incrimination., wrongful incriminations from dna evidence, the ac…

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incriminating

adjective
Making someone appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing.
Usage examples:
Incriminating evidence

verb
Make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing.
Usage examples:
He refused to answer questions in order not to incriminate himself

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incriminates

verb
Make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing.
Usage examples:
He refused to answer questions in order not to incriminate himself

verb
To seem to show that someone is guilty of a crime
Usage examples:
He refused to say anything on the grounds that he might incriminate himself., incriminating evidenc…

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incriminated

verb
Make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing.
Usage examples:
He refused to answer questions in order not to incriminate himself

verb
Past simple and past participle of incriminate
Usage examples:
A secret report incriminating the company was leaked last week., he refused to say anything on the …

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Incriminate synonims

accuse

verb
Charge (someone) with an offence or crime.
Usage examples:
He was accused of murdering his wife's lover

verb
Blame for; make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against

verb
To say that someone is responsible for a crime or for having done something wrong
Usage examples:
He was accused of failing to pay his taxes., she accused me of lying., he denied the accusation, sa…

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blame

verb
Feel or declare that (someone or something) is responsible for a fault or wrong.
Usage examples:
The inquiry blamed the train driver for the accident

noun
Responsibility for a fault or wrong.
Usage examples:
His players had to take the blame for the defeat

verb
To make someone or something responsible for something
Usage examples:
You can’t blame the government for all your troubles., i don't blame her for not supporting the fin…

All meanings and translations of Blame

denounce

dɪˈnaʊns

verb
Publicly declare to be wrong or evil.
Usage examples:
The assembly denounced the use of violence

verb
To criticize someone or something strongly and publicly
Usage examples:
The teachers denounced the contract offer as inadequate.

verb
To criticize something or someone strongly and publicly
Usage examples:
The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides., he angrily denounced the decisio…

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entrap

verb
Catch in or as in a trap.
Usage examples:
Discarded fishing lines can entrap wildlife

verb
To deceive someone into doing something wrong so that the person will be caught
Usage examples:
He claimed he was the victim of fbi entrapment.

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frame

noun
A rigid structure that surrounds something such as a picture, door, or windowpane.
Usage examples:
His mother stood in the frame of the kitchen door, hands on her hips and a grim expression on her f…

verb
Place (a picture or photograph) in a frame.
Usage examples:
He had had the photo framed

noun
A set of criteria or stated values in relation to which measurements or judgements can be made.
Usage examples:
The observer interprets what he sees in terms of his own cultural frame of reference

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grass on

phrasal verb
If a person grasses on someone else, they tell the police or someone in authority about something bad that that person has done
Usage examples:
Dan grassed on them to the local police.

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implicate

verb
Show (someone) to be involved in a crime.
Usage examples:
He was implicated in a price-fixing scandal

noun
A thing implied.
Usage examples:
The dual nature of the heart represents the meeting of the changeless and the changing, the inevita…

verb
To show that someone is involved in a crime or partly responsible for something bad that has happened
Usage examples:
A lot of people were implicated in the scandal.

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inculpate

verb
Accuse or blame.
Usage examples:
He blamed himself, but also inculpated his fiancée

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involve

verb
Have or include (something) as a necessary or integral part or result.
Usage examples:
My job involves a lot of travelling

verb
To include someone or something in an activity
Usage examples:
The accident involved two cars and a truck., the operation involves inserting a small tube into the…

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point the finger at

idiom
To say that someone should be blamed
Usage examples:
I just tried to do what was right, and now everyone's pointing the finger at me.

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