indict

indict is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
2. transitive verb. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
3. transitive verb. To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
4. verb. accuse formally of a crime

Common word forms

indicts, indicted, indicter, indicting, indictable, indictment

Words from these letters

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