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Definition of "criminate" [crim•i•nate]

  • To incriminate. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "criminate" in a sentence
  • "Director H. Bruce H.mberstone and cinematographer Edward Cronjager were prolific hacks who began in silent pictures and ended on television, their careers defined by indis criminate efficiency."
  • "Xanne Joi has the right to criminate, but the rest of us have a right to recriminate."
  • "How far you may be implicated in this last transaction, or how far the person who is now in custody may criminate you, you best know."