| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| recriminate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·crim·i·nate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -krm  -n t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: re·crim·i·nat·ed, re·crim·i·nat·ing, re·crim·i·nates
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To accuse in return. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To counter one accusation with another. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Medieval Latin recr minr, recrmint- : Latin re-, re- + Latin crminre, to accuse (from crmen, crmin-, accusation, crime; see krei- in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | re·crimi·native, re·crimi·na·tory (-n-tôr , -t r) —ADJECTIVE
re·crimi·nator —NOUN
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