finger as

finger someone as someone

Sl. to identify someone as a certain person. (As if one were pointing a finger at someone.) Max fingered his partner as the gunman. The accountant fingered the bookkeeper as the one who fixed the books.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Wolfram	-	German
Grant	[grænt]
Lyuba	-	Russian, Ukrainian
Clara	KLAH-rah (Italian, German, Spanish), KLER-ə (English), KLAR-ə (English)	Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, English, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Gauhar	-	Arabic
Janie	['dʒeini]