criminate

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This disclosure, if it exculpates you, will of course criminate her, and among those, too, where she has been received and admitted on terms of the closest friendship.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James

The English law, with a tenderness then unknown, would now protect a man from all efforts to make him criminate himself.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John

"Just speak up the truth; but you are not forced to say anything to criminate yourself."

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Could any thing tend more to criminate his lordship than the sudden punishment of the accuser, while in the act of preferring his complaint?

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

He had sought out Papa Francoise hoping to win from him something that would criminate Alan Warburton, and to use him as a tool.

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.