MEANING
To respond to an accusation by making a counteraccusation.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- recriminate against an accuser
- recriminating exchanges
On the page
Instead of answering the charge, the brothers recriminated over the earlier betrayal.
She refused to recriminate and returned to the missing evidence.
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Word forms
- Base
- recriminate
- Past tense
- recriminated
- Past participle
- recriminated
- Present participle
- recriminating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- recriminate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are recriminating
- Present perfect
- have/has recriminated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been recriminating
- Past
- recriminated
- Past continuous
- was/were recriminating
- Past perfect
- had recriminated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been recriminating
- Future
- will recriminate
- Future continuous
- will be recriminating
- Future perfect
- will have recriminated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been recriminating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: recriminate; recriminates; recriminated; recriminated; recriminating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: recriminates.
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