recriminate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RECRIM'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin re and criminor, to accuse.] 1. To return one accusation with another. It is not my business to recriminate 2. To charge an accuser with the like crime. RECRIM'INATE, verb transitive To accuse in return.
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