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indict as in:  indicted by the grand jury

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    There's an ongoing investigation, but she has not been indicted.
    indicted = formally charged with a crime
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    Ofrah said they would be leading protests around the city if the grand jury didn't indict.  (source)
    indict = officially charge with a crime
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    Pickett himself hadn't yet been charged, although an editorial in the paper from three days before his disappearance criticized the authorities: "The Indianapolis Star Has Enough Evidence to Indict Russell Pickett; Why Don't the Authorities?"  (source)
    Indict = formally charge with a crime
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    These would be distilled into an 84-count indictment.  (source)
    indictment = document of formal criminal charges
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    …absence of any corroborative evidence, this man was indicted on a capital charge and is now on trial for his life….  (source)
    indicted = formally accused
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    The prosecutor chose to indict thirteen-year-old Joe Sullivan in adult court for sexual battery and other charges.  (source)
    indict = charge with a crime
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    Later, there would be indictments, arrests.†  (source)
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    I don't like the way they follow me with their eyes, indicting me, as if being close to Pilar or Tía will somehow contaminate me.†  (source)
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    The editorial contained phrases such as: personal vendetta, criminally sloppy journalism, and demands that measures be taken against indictable allegations regarding decent citizens.†  (source)
    indictable = able to be formally accused of a crime
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in indictable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    creates, reduces to a fragile evanescent iridescent sphere) all of space and time and massy earth, relicts the seething and anonymous miasmal mass which in all the years of time has taught itself no boon of death but only how to recreate, renew; and dies, is gone, vanished: nothing—but is that true wisdom which can comprehend that there is a might-have-been which is more true than truth, from which the dreamer, waking, says not 'Did I but dream?' but rather says, indicts high heaven's very self with: 'Why did I wake since waking I shall never sleep again?†  (source)
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    Every indictor tab in Vault 10 carried the same keyword.†  (source)
    indictor = someone who formally charges someone with a crime
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    It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment, aye or nay.  (source)
    indictment = criminal charge
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    If I so much as say an unkind word to a terrorist, I'll be indicted.  (source)
    indicted = formally charged with a crime
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indict as in:  indicted the idea as ridiculous

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In her essay, she indicts the political establishment.
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    She indicted the church for being hypocritical.
    indicted = criticized or condemned
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    My memories of them became ominous, indicting.  (source)
    indicting = condemning or critical
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    Mamaw saw every ballot failure of the local school improvement tax (and there were many) as an indictment of our society's failure to provide a quality education to kids like me.  (source)
    indictment = condemnation or criticism
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But whatever I said would be a self-indictment; others would have to fight for me.  (source)
indictment = condemning (criticizing)
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