Indict
verb
To officially charge someone with a crime.
The jury decided to indict the suspect for murder.
Often appears as...
- indict on charges
- indict for fraud
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Formal
Technical
verb
To criticize or accuse someone.
She indicted the government for failing to take action on poverty.
Often appears as...
- indict for negligence
- indict for wrongdoing
Usage tips
Formal
Idiomatic
verb
To officially charge someone with a crime.
The jury decided to indict the suspect for murder.
Often appears as...
- indict on charges
- indict for fraud
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To criticize or accuse someone.
She indicted the government for failing to take action on poverty.
Often appears as...
- indict for negligence
- indict for wrongdoing
Usage tips
Formal
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Process
The term 'indict' is used in a legal context, especially during the stages of criminal court proceedings.
The businessman was indicted on multiple counts of embezzlement.
Pro Tip 2/3Grand Jury Role
'Indict' often involves a grand jury, which decides whether there is enough evidence for a trial.
The grand jury indicted the politician after reviewing the evidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Charges
To indict someone usually implies the alleged crime is serious and has been thoroughly investigated.
Following the investigation, officers indicted the gang leader for drug trafficking.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Process
The term 'indict' is used in a legal context, especially during the stages of criminal court proceedings.
The businessman was indicted on multiple counts of embezzlement.
Pro Tip 2/3Grand Jury Role
'Indict' often involves a grand jury, which decides whether there is enough evidence for a trial.
The grand jury indicted the politician after reviewing the evidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Charges
To indict someone usually implies the alleged crime is serious and has been thoroughly investigated.
Following the investigation, officers indicted the gang leader for drug trafficking.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Process
The term 'indict' is used in a legal context, especially during the stages of criminal court proceedings.
The businessman was indicted on multiple counts of embezzlement.
Pro Tip 2/3Grand Jury Role
'Indict' often involves a grand jury, which decides whether there is enough evidence for a trial.
The grand jury indicted the politician after reviewing the evidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Charges
To indict someone usually implies the alleged crime is serious and has been thoroughly investigated.
Following the investigation, officers indicted the gang leader for drug trafficking.
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The hidden life of Rosa...
When a jury failed to indict the attackers, Parks demanded the governor assemble a new grand jury. She wrote, “I know that you will not fail to let the people of Alabama know that there is equal justice for all of our citizens.” Throughout her life, Parks repeatedly challenged racial violence
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How fear drives American...
do have the ability to respond with a kinetic attack? We don't know. If somebody launches a cyber attack, how do we deter them? When China launched a series of cyber attacks, what did the U.S. government do? It said, we're going to indict a few of these Chinese guys,
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How porn changes the way...
or people who have kinks or have fetishes. So I could see why, on the one hand, we might be very worried about the messages that pornography is sending, and on the other hand, why we might be really worried about going overboard indicting it. For the next two years,
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Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
We use that story to convince ourselves that human trafficking is a bad man doing a bad thing to an innocent girl. That story lets us off the hook. It takes away all the societal context that we might be indicted for, for the structural inequality, or the poverty,
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9/11 healing: The...
coming over when her son was indicted, and I thought, "What a brave woman. Someday I want to meet that woman when I'm stronger." I was still in deep grief; I knew I didn't have the strength. I knew I would find her someday, or we would find each other.
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How the Panama Papers...
The FBI began to indict officials at FIFA, the organization that controls the world of professional soccer. The Panama Papers actually had unique insights into each one of these unfolding events. So you can imagine the pressure and the ego dramas
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Aja Monet and phillip...
when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make revolution irresistible. For the wizards --
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Facebook's role in...
and with Trump's buddy, Roger Stone, now indicted, immediately before two massive WikiLeaks dumps, both of which happened to benefit Donald Trump. But I will tell you that Brexit and Trump were intimately entwined.
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The healing power of...
I also felt challenged and indicted by his words. Especially these "There are liberals who have all the proper attitudes, but no real convictions. When the chips are down and you somehow expect them to deliver,
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
have also been indicted for filing false reports all four officers surrendered this morning to the district attorney's office they have been arrested fingerprinted and potent
Video examples
The hidden life of Rosa...
When a jury failed to indict the attackers, Parks demanded the governor assemble a new grand jury. She wrote, “I know that you will not fail to let the people of Alabama know that there is equal justice for all of our citizens.” Throughout her life, Parks repeatedly challenged racial violence
Video examples
How fear drives American...
do have the ability to respond with a kinetic attack? We don't know. If somebody launches a cyber attack, how do we deter them? When China launched a series of cyber attacks, what did the U.S. government do? It said, we're going to indict a few of these Chinese guys,
Video examples
How porn changes the way...
or people who have kinks or have fetishes. So I could see why, on the one hand, we might be very worried about the messages that pornography is sending, and on the other hand, why we might be really worried about going overboard indicting it. For the next two years,
Video examples
Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
We use that story to convince ourselves that human trafficking is a bad man doing a bad thing to an innocent girl. That story lets us off the hook. It takes away all the societal context that we might be indicted for, for the structural inequality, or the poverty,
Video examples
9/11 healing: The...
coming over when her son was indicted, and I thought, "What a brave woman. Someday I want to meet that woman when I'm stronger." I was still in deep grief; I knew I didn't have the strength. I knew I would find her someday, or we would find each other.
Video examples
How the Panama Papers...
The FBI began to indict officials at FIFA, the organization that controls the world of professional soccer. The Panama Papers actually had unique insights into each one of these unfolding events. So you can imagine the pressure and the ego dramas
Video examples
Aja Monet and phillip...
when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make revolution irresistible. For the wizards --
Video examples
Facebook's role in...
and with Trump's buddy, Roger Stone, now indicted, immediately before two massive WikiLeaks dumps, both of which happened to benefit Donald Trump. But I will tell you that Brexit and Trump were intimately entwined.
Video examples
The healing power of...
I also felt challenged and indicted by his words. Especially these "There are liberals who have all the proper attitudes, but no real convictions. When the chips are down and you somehow expect them to deliver,
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
have also been indicted for filing false reports all four officers surrendered this morning to the district attorney's office they have been arrested fingerprinted and potent
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Quote examples
Neal Katyal
American Lawyer
I think probably, you know, from my perspective, the folks who say a sitting president cannot be indicted have the better of the argument that the president can't be indicted - put, you know, through a criminal trial while he is president - and that the proper way to do it is to impeach him first, remove him, and then seek criminal prosecution.
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Jed S. Rakoff
American Judge
In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is by prosecuting some high-level person. While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial.
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Christopher A. Wray
American Public Servant
I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is anonymity and stealth and deniability. And by indicting them publicly, among other things, we strip them of that.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
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Liu Xiaobo
Chinese Critic
I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.
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Chinua Achebe
Nigerian Writer
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.
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Rudy Giuliani
American Politician
Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming.
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Thomas Francis Meagher
Irish Soldier
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
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James Surowiecki
American Journalist
Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.
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Neal Katyal
American Lawyer
I think probably, you know, from my perspective, the folks who say a sitting president cannot be indicted have the better of the argument that the president can't be indicted - put, you know, through a criminal trial while he is president - and that the proper way to do it is to impeach him first, remove him, and then seek criminal prosecution.
Quote examples
Jed S. Rakoff
American Judge
In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is by prosecuting some high-level person. While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial.
Quote examples
Christopher A. Wray
American Public Servant
I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is anonymity and stealth and deniability. And by indicting them publicly, among other things, we strip them of that.
Quote examples
John F. Kennedy
American President
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
Quote examples
Liu Xiaobo
Chinese Critic
I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.
Quote examples
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian Writer
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.
Quote examples
Rudy Giuliani
American Politician
Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming.
Quote examples
Thomas Francis Meagher
Irish Soldier
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
Quote examples
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
Quote examples
James Surowiecki
American Journalist
Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.
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