Indicted vs Invited - What's the difference?
indicted | invited |
(indict)
To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
(legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
(invite)
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To request formally.
To encourage.
* 1902 , Roosevelt,
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
* Milton
* Dryden
* Cowper
As verbs the difference between indicted and invited
is that indicted is (indict) while invited is (invite).indicted
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Verb
(head)indict
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Verb
(en verb)- a book that indicts modern values
- his former manager was indicted for fraud
See also
* inditeinvited
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Verb
(head)invite
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Verb
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.