What's the difference between recriminate and recrimination?

Recriminate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
  • (v. t.) To accuse in return.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The consequences of choosing impasse are hardly threatening: mutual recriminations over the cause of stalemate, new rounds of talks, and retaining control of all of the West Bank from within and much of Gaza from without.
  • (2) The samples could help inform an international response to the attack, which has sharply upped the stakes in Syria's civil war, drawing demands for recrimination and edging a much-feared regional spillover closer to reality.
  • (3) Since 7 May, some of the public recriminations involving Ukip have included: Farage’s decision to resign, only to go back on his decision four days later, prompting one of the party’s biggest donors, Stuart Wheeler, to call for him to step back in favour of someone quieter.
  • (4) But that’s the point: if and when it happens it will be hard enough for British Jews to deal with our own differences and mutual recriminations.
  • (5) In that respect, everyone in court number one had already lived through 24-hour cycles of tension, violence, anarchy, horror, cleanup, clampdown, fightback, soul-searching and recrimination.
  • (6) The increasingly grim news from Iraq fuelled fresh recriminations in Washington on Sunday, with Republicans turning on the White House and each other.
  • (7) The protests were the latest in a series by fast-food and retail workers in the US, who have been campaigning for a raise in the minimum wage and the right to join unions without recrimination.
  • (8) But Burnham and others, including Watson, believe a leadership race would destabilise and risk splitting the party amid bitter recriminations between the leadership team – backed by the grassroots membership – and most of the party’s MPs.
  • (9) The conference has been characterised by posturing and recriminations but gained focus on Friday with the release of a document outlining ambitious greenhouse gas cuts over the next 40 years.
  • (10) The revelation last week of that second batch of bigoted text messages has prompted another round of recrimination between city leaders and again raised the question: how can this be happening in liberal San Francisco ?
  • (11) Recriminations began to fly after the meeting ended.
  • (12) Or falling over amid recriminations over who sat on the iPhone.
  • (13) UN-brokered peace talks this year brought a period of relief to parts of the country, but after they collapsed in recriminations this summer the airstrikes escalated.
  • (14) The remarks were a reflection of the bitter recriminations that broke out as Labour negotiators with the Lib Dems accused Clegg's team of proposing ludicrous spending pledges, and Clegg himself of obstructing talks.
  • (15) It would be the low point in a brutal, recrimination-filled night, one many participants would recall as the nadir of the three-year eurozone crisis.
  • (16) Recriminations also continued over the government's repatriation programme via the Channel ports and Spain, under which Madrid was named as a "hub" airport for getting travellers from destinations outside Europe back home.
  • (17) But his wife and brother-in-law remain on the transplant list, still sick and still waiting, leaving the family in a toxic tangle of illness, guilt and recrimination.
  • (18) The increasingly grim news from Iraq, where Isis and its Sunni militant allies have reportedly captured the Turaibil crossing with Jordan and the al-Walid crossing with Syria, fuelled fresh recriminations in Washington on Sunday, with Republicans turning on the White House and each other.
  • (19) Recriminations were strong on Sunday morning as many Australians woke up to the shock news that Pauline Hanson’s One Nation was on track to be elected to the Senate, possibly with more than one seat.
  • (20) The plan to allow them to stand as bishops was derailed by just six votes cast by lay members in November 2012, causing bitter recriminations within the Church of England and prompting threats of an intervention by parliament.

Recrimination


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The consequences of choosing impasse are hardly threatening: mutual recriminations over the cause of stalemate, new rounds of talks, and retaining control of all of the West Bank from within and much of Gaza from without.
  • (2) The samples could help inform an international response to the attack, which has sharply upped the stakes in Syria's civil war, drawing demands for recrimination and edging a much-feared regional spillover closer to reality.
  • (3) Since 7 May, some of the public recriminations involving Ukip have included: Farage’s decision to resign, only to go back on his decision four days later, prompting one of the party’s biggest donors, Stuart Wheeler, to call for him to step back in favour of someone quieter.
  • (4) But that’s the point: if and when it happens it will be hard enough for British Jews to deal with our own differences and mutual recriminations.
  • (5) In that respect, everyone in court number one had already lived through 24-hour cycles of tension, violence, anarchy, horror, cleanup, clampdown, fightback, soul-searching and recrimination.
  • (6) The increasingly grim news from Iraq fuelled fresh recriminations in Washington on Sunday, with Republicans turning on the White House and each other.
  • (7) The protests were the latest in a series by fast-food and retail workers in the US, who have been campaigning for a raise in the minimum wage and the right to join unions without recrimination.
  • (8) But Burnham and others, including Watson, believe a leadership race would destabilise and risk splitting the party amid bitter recriminations between the leadership team – backed by the grassroots membership – and most of the party’s MPs.
  • (9) The conference has been characterised by posturing and recriminations but gained focus on Friday with the release of a document outlining ambitious greenhouse gas cuts over the next 40 years.
  • (10) The revelation last week of that second batch of bigoted text messages has prompted another round of recrimination between city leaders and again raised the question: how can this be happening in liberal San Francisco ?
  • (11) Recriminations began to fly after the meeting ended.
  • (12) Or falling over amid recriminations over who sat on the iPhone.
  • (13) UN-brokered peace talks this year brought a period of relief to parts of the country, but after they collapsed in recriminations this summer the airstrikes escalated.
  • (14) The remarks were a reflection of the bitter recriminations that broke out as Labour negotiators with the Lib Dems accused Clegg's team of proposing ludicrous spending pledges, and Clegg himself of obstructing talks.
  • (15) It would be the low point in a brutal, recrimination-filled night, one many participants would recall as the nadir of the three-year eurozone crisis.
  • (16) Recriminations also continued over the government's repatriation programme via the Channel ports and Spain, under which Madrid was named as a "hub" airport for getting travellers from destinations outside Europe back home.
  • (17) But his wife and brother-in-law remain on the transplant list, still sick and still waiting, leaving the family in a toxic tangle of illness, guilt and recrimination.
  • (18) The increasingly grim news from Iraq, where Isis and its Sunni militant allies have reportedly captured the Turaibil crossing with Jordan and the al-Walid crossing with Syria, fuelled fresh recriminations in Washington on Sunday, with Republicans turning on the White House and each other.
  • (19) Recriminations were strong on Sunday morning as many Australians woke up to the shock news that Pauline Hanson’s One Nation was on track to be elected to the Senate, possibly with more than one seat.
  • (20) The plan to allow them to stand as bishops was derailed by just six votes cast by lay members in November 2012, causing bitter recriminations within the Church of England and prompting threats of an intervention by parliament.

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