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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crimino, criminatus.
Verb
criminate (third-person singular simple present criminates, present participle criminating, simple past and past participle criminated)
- (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate.
1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 331:‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […] .’
1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:In Germany, I had heard little of this terrible gang, and I had paid no greater heed to the stories related once or twice about them in Carlsruhe than one does to tales about ogres. But here in their very haunts, I learnt the full amount of the terror they inspired. No one would be legally responsible for any evidence criminating the murderer.
- (transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone).
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Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
crīmināte
- second-person plural present active imperative of crīminō
Spanish
Verb
criminate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of criminar combined with te