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third-person singular simple present criminates, present participle criminating, simple past and past participle criminated
(transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. quotations examples
‘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 […] .’
1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 331
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.
1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
(transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone).