ARRAIGNED Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

arraigned

verb

past tense of arraign

as in accused

law to state the charges against someone who is accused of a crime in a formal procedure before a judge

—usually used as (be) arraigned He was arraigned on charges of manslaughter.

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Recent Examples of arraigned Everyone the police arrest in New York City gets arraigned shortly thereafter in the criminal courts operating in the city’s five boroughs. — Robert Gangi, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026 She was arrested days later, on May 14, for a separate OWI incident and was arraigned on May 28. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 She and Sami are being housed in the Los Angeles County jail and have not yet come to the Bay Area to be arraigned in the Alameda County robbery case. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026 The district court judge issued warrants, which were canceled two days later when she was arraigned. — Christina Hall, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026 He was arraigned in criminal court on Staten Island on Wednesday and was granted supervised release by the judge. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 He was set to be arraigned on the remaining charges in Lowell Juvenile Court on Wednesday. — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026 Aravind was initially arraigned Wednesday morning at Lowell Juvenile Court. — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2026 He was being held in lieu of $75,000 bail and was expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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Royce Moser is then accused of driving the Jeep, as his mother followed along in another vehicle, to a parking lot in California Borough and leaving it there.

— Michael Guise, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Hickey is also accused of helping three other people illegally harvest turkeys.

— Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of accused

Verb

Giampa, who was indicted in December 2023, ultimately accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to life in prison.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026
Laken Snelling had initially pleaded not guilty after a grand jury indicted her on several charges, including first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.

— Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of indicted

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But on Wednesday, Chris Bonelli, Waymo’s product communications manager, summoned one of the all-electric, custom robotaxis to the flowering neighborhood park not far from Cherry Creek to demonstrate the technology to the press.

— Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2026
In Ohio, Haitians are being summoned to Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices and fitted with electronic ankle monitors.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026

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Masanori Kumagai/Kyodo News via AP Hiraguchi cited surveys showing the vast majority of Japanese supporting the death penalty as an unavoidable option.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Crossings in the Strait of Hormuz remain low, with just seven commodity ships passing through on Thursday – half of Wednesday’s total, according to Kpler data cited by Reuters.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of cited

Verb

He was booked on child molestation charges in 2003, but acquitted on criminal counts.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026
After investigating the incident and consulting with the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office, police said on Thursday that Thompson was arrested and booked into jail on one count of murder.

— Brandon Downs, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of booked

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Locally, he was impeached after nearly a year of fighting the charges.

— Sara-James Ranta, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
Trump had argued that if a President wasn’t successfully impeached while in office there could be no criminal prosecution of him for anything.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of impeached

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Last year, just weeks after the homicide, Solano County prosecutors charged Evans with fatally shooting 19-year-old Tamarcus Williams on the 300 block of West Texas Street in Fairfield, court records show.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
For more than five decades, the Department has been charged with protecting and humanely managing wild horses and burros on public lands.

— Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

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