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Incriminate   /ɪnkrˈɪmənˌeɪt/   Listen
Incriminate

verb
(past & past part. incriminated; pres. part. incriminating)
1.
Suggest that someone is guilty.  Synonyms: imply, inculpate.
2.
Bring an accusation against; level a charge against.  Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach.






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"Incriminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... sordid picture of Lumpy Joe's returned to him. By a hair's breadth! It was always a source of amazement to recall how quickly and shrewdly his escape had been managed. He felt reasonably safe. Jameson would never dare tell what he knew, to incriminate himself for the sake of revenge. To have got the best of him and to have pulled the wool over the eyes ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath

... justified the charge. Boyce was worth a thousand a year to him. The more I speculated on the danger that might arise from Gedge, the easier I grew in my mind. Your blackmailer is a notorious saver of his skin. Gedge had no desire to bring Boyce to justice and thereby incriminate himself. His visit to Sir Anthony was actuated by sheer malignity. Without doubt, he counted on his story being believed. But he knew enough of the hated and envied aristocracy to feel assured that Sir Anthony ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke

... me that there shall be no torture I shall be obliged to withdraw from this business altogether; moreover, I will take my magic off Sekosini, and then nothing that you can do will make him confess or incriminate the others. ...
— The Adventures of Dick Maitland - A Tale of Unknown Africa • Harry Collingwood

... populous country where they may locate." In explanations of the anti-Mormon feeling in Missouri frequent allusion is made to polygamous practices. This was not charged in any of the formal statements against them, and Corrill declares that they had done nothing there that would incriminate them under the law. The Mormons were urged to seek a new abiding-place, the territory of Wisconsin being recommended for their investigation. The resolutions confessed that "we do not contend that we have the least right, under the constitution ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... promise me that there shall be no torture I shall be obliged to withdraw from this business altogether; moreover, I will take my magic off Sekosini, and then nothing that you can do will make him confess or incriminate the others. You know that, ...
— The Adventures of Dick Maitland - A Tale of Unknown Africa • Harry Collingwood


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