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Indict

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Verb (transitive)
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in=dict

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Indict has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Indictv. t. [OE. enditen. See Indite.].
  •  To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.  [1913 Webster]
    "I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Indict, v.tr. accuse (a person) formally by legal process.

Derivative
indictee n. indicter n.
Etymology
ME f. AF enditer indict f. OF enditier declare f. Rmc indictare (unrecorded: as IN-(2), DICTATE)

THESAURUS

Indict

accuse, accuse of, allege, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, article, blame, blame for, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure, charge, charge with, cite, complain, complain against, condemn, criminate, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, damn, decry, denounce, denunciate, fasten on, fasten upon, file a claim, finger, fulminate against, hang something on, have up, impeach, imply, impugn, impute, incriminate, inculpate, inform against, inform on, insinuate, inveigh against, lay charges, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, pin on, prefer charges, press charges, pull up, put on report, reflect upon, report, reprehend, reproach, reprobate, shake up, subpoena, summon, summons, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, twit

ROGET THESAURUS

Indict

Lawsuit

VB go to law, appeal to the law, bring to justice, bring to trial, bring to the bar, put on trial, pull up, accuse, prefer a claim, file a claim, take the law of, inform against, serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit, arrest, summon, summons, give in charge, empanel a jury, implead, join issue, close the pleadings, set down for hearing, try, hear a cause, sit in judgment, adjudicate.

Accusation

VB accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach, brand with reproach, stigmatize, slur, cast a stone at, cast a slur on, incriminate, criminate, inculpate, implicate, call to account, take to blame, take to task, put in the black book, inform against, indict, denounce, arraign, impeach, appeach, have up, show up, pull up, challenge, cite, lodge a complaint, prosecute, bring an action against, blow upon, charge with, saddle with, lay to one's door, lay charge, lay the blame on, bring home to, cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth, cast the first stone at, have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for, have a crow to pluck with, trump up a charge.

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