indict

UK/ɪnˈdaɪt/

indict verb: to accuse of wrongdoing; charge.

Verb

indict (third-person singular simple present indicts, present participle indicting, simple past and past participle indicted)

(transitive) To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
- a book that indicts modern values
- Co-writer Jonathan Keasey has said the film will aim to indict “our nonstop, 24-7 media cycle that convicts and ruins the lives of so many people without any due process”.2023 September 29, Benjamin Lee, quoting Jonathan Keasey, “OceanGate Titan sub disaster movie in the offing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
(transitive) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
- his former manager was indicted for fraud
- Having been indicted by the U.S. government for violating the anti-Serbian sanctions, Bobby blamed Jews and the N.Y. Times, "which is controlled by rich Jews."1991, Wilmot Robertson (contributor), Instauration, volumes 17-18, page 28
Synonyms:

arraign, charge, inculpate, accriminate, accuse, appeach, becry, tax, criminate, have up

indict meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

indict in Urdu

الزام لگانا, علت لگانا, ماخوذ کرنا, مقدمہ چلانا

indict in Malayalam

accuse, charge, arraign: പ്രതിചേർക്കുക, കുറ്റം ചുമത്തുക, കുറ്റംചെയ്തെന്നു പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുക, പഴിചുമത്തുക, വിധിക്കുക, കുറ്റപ്പെടുത്തുക

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indict in Kannada: ಆಪಾದಿಸು, ತಪ್ಪುಹೊರಿಸು, ದೋಷಾರೋಪಣೆ ಮಾಡು, ಆರೋಪಿಸು
indict in Persian: متهم کردن mottaham kardan

Examples of indict in a sentence

The nineteen-fifties was also a time when literary publishers were frequently indicted for obscenity.
Everybody knows that a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich if that's all they see."
Salvant imbued it with Wilsonian hyperclarity, suavely allowing the tune to indict itself.

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Synonyms of indict

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appeach

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Forms of indict

third-person singular present	indicts
present participle	indicting
past participle	indicted
past	indicted

Past tense of indict: indicted

Origin of indict

From Middle English enditen, endyten (“to accuse”), from Old French enditer (“to dictate, indite”), from Late Latin indictāre, frequentative of Latin indicere (“to proclaim”), from in- + dicere (“to say”), or from in- + dictāre (“to say often, to dictate”). Doublet of indite. The irregular spelling is due to the word having been borrowed into Middle English from Old French, and not from Latin as was the case with most other descendants of dictāre (but see dight). The borrowed /iː/ regularly shifted to /aɪ/ in the course of the Great Vowel Shift; the ⟨c⟩ represents a later attempt at graphic Latinisation.

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Words that rhyme with indict

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Questions about indict

What does indict mean?: Indict means to accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
What is indict in Tamil?: Indict in Tamil is குற்றஞ் சாட்டு, குற்றஞ்சாட்டு. See Indict meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is indict?: Indict is a verb.
How do you pronounce indict?: Indict is pronounced /ɪnˈdaɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of indict?: The past tense of indict is indicted.

Words near indict in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: indict (page history and authors); indict (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indict (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Indict (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indict (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); indict (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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