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indict

charge with an offense; criticize: He tends to indict everyone of plotting against him.

Not to be confused with:

indite – compose or write, as a poem: She will indite an ode to the sunset.

in·dict

(ĭn-dīt′)

tr.v. in·dict·ed, in·dict·ing, in·dicts

1. Law To charge (a party) by indictment.

2. To accuse of wrongdoing or criticize severely: "[He] managed to indict the country's smug, liberal establishment whose lip service throttled the struggle for civil rights" (Bob Spitz).

[Alteration of Middle English enditen, to accuse, write a document; see indite.]

in′dict·ee′ (ĭn′dī-tē′) n.

in·dict′er, in·dict′or n.

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indict

(ɪnˈdaɪt)

(Law) (tr) criminal law to charge (a person) with crime, esp formally in writing; accuse

[C14: alteration of enditen to indite]

ˌindictˈee n

inˈdicter, inˈdictor n

Usage: See at indite

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in•dict

(ɪnˈdaɪt)

v.t.

1. to charge with a crime.

2. to accuse of wrongdoing.

[1620–30; variant sp. (< Medieval Latin) of indite]

in•dict•ee′, n.

in•dict′er, in•dict′or, n.

indict

Past participle: indicted
Gerund: indicting

Imperative
indict
indict

Present
I indict
you indict
he/she/it indicts
we indict
you indict
they indict

Preterite
I indicted
you indicted
he/she/it indicted
we indicted
you indicted
they indicted

Present Continuous
I am indicting
you are indicting
he/she/it is indicting
we are indicting
you are indicting
they are indicting

Present Perfect
I have indicted
you have indicted
he/she/it has indicted
we have indicted
you have indicted
they have indicted

Past Continuous
I was indicting
you were indicting
he/she/it was indicting
we were indicting
you were indicting
they were indicting

Past Perfect
I had indicted
you had indicted
he/she/it had indicted
we had indicted
you had indicted
they had indicted

Future
I will indict
you will indict
he/she/it will indict
we will indict
you will indict
they will indict

Future Perfect
I will have indicted
you will have indicted
he/she/it will have indicted
we will have indicted
you will have indicted
they will have indicted

Future Continuous
I will be indicting
you will be indicting
he/she/it will be indicting
we will be indicting
you will be indicting
they will be indicting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been indicting
you have been indicting
he/she/it has been indicting
we have been indicting
you have been indicting
they have been indicting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been indicting
you will have been indicting
he/she/it will have been indicting
we will have been indicting
you will have been indicting
they will have been indicting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been indicting
you had been indicting
he/she/it had been indicting
we had been indicting
you had been indicting
they had been indicting

Conditional
I would indict
you would indict
he/she/it would indict
we would indict
you would indict
they would indict

Past Conditional
I would have indicted
you would have indicted
he/she/it would have indicted
we would have indicted
you would have indicted
they would have indicted

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Verb

indict - accuse formally of a crime

accuse, charge - blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged the director with indifference"

indict

verb charge, accuse, prosecute, summon, impeach, arraign, serve with a summons He was later indicted on corruption charges.

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indict

verb

To make an accusation against:

accuse, arraign, charge, denounce, incriminate, tax.

Translations

anklagen beschuldigen

accuser inculper

incriminare accusare imputare

indict

[ɪnˈdaɪt] VT

1. (esp US) (= charge) → acusar
to indict sb for murder → acusar a algn de homicidio

2. (fig) → condenar, criticar duramente

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indict

[ɪnˈdaɪt] vt (LAW) → inculper
to be indicted on a criminal charge → être inculpé(e) pour un crime
to be indicted for murder → être inculpé(e) pour meurtre

indict

vt (= charge) → anklagen, beschuldigen (→ on a charge of sth einer Sache gen), → unter Anklage stellen; (US Jur) → Anklage erheben gegen (→ for wegen +gen); to indict somebody as a murderer → jdn unter Mordanklage stellen, jdn des Mordes anklagen

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indict

[ɪnˈdaɪt] vt (Law) to indict sb for → incriminare qn per

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A STATESMAN who had been indicted by an unfeeling Grand Jury was arrested by a Sheriff and thrown into jail.

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To be brief, then, Eustace Macallan was "indicted and accused, at the instance of David Mintlaw, Esquire, Her Majesty's Advocate, for Her Majesty's interest," of the Murder of his Wife by poison, at his residence called Gleninch, in the county of Mid-Lothian.

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And the boy indicted Wolf Larsen as he had never been indicted before.

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However that may be, it is of record that on recovering from his illness John May was indicted for the murder of his missing father.

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To which Dowling answered, "He thought he might be indicted on the Black Act; but said, as it was a matter of some nicety, it would be proper to go to counsel.

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We'll indict the blackguards for felony, and get 'em shipped off to penal settlements.'

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It may, at first sight, be matter of surprise to the thoughtless few that Mr Brass, being a professional gentleman, should not have legally indicted some party or parties, active in the promotion of the nuisance, but they will be good enough to remember, that as Doctors seldom take their own prescriptions, and Divines do not always practise what they preach, so lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving, than for its always shaving the right person.