criminate

Other forms of criminate

past tense

criminated·

present participle

criminating·

third person

criminates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about criminate

What does criminate mean?

criminate means "bring an accusation against; level a charge against". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in criminate?

criminate has 3 syllables: cri-mi-nate. The stress falls on "cri".

What is another word for criminate?

Close synonyms include accuse, impeach, incriminate, reprimand, censure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is criminate a common word?

criminate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.