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обвини́ть — meaning in English

obvinit

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English meaning

  • accuse verb To claim that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime.
  • arraign verb To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  • blame noun Responsibility for something bad, or the act of holding someone responsible for it.
  • charge noun An amount of money asked for a service or product.
  • indict verb To formally charge someone with a crime.
  • name noun A word or phrase used to identify a specific person, place, or thing.

Senses

обвини́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • arraign (with on, (archaic) for) To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  • blame (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
  • charge (transitive, criminal law, police) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
  • indict To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
  • indict (legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
  • name (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.

arraign — full definition

  1. verb To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  2. verb To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

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