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Inculpate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To incriminate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To imply guilt; to incriminate.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt. Contrasted with exculpate.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To expose to blame or imputation of wrong-doing; incriminate.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. suggest that someone is guilty

Word Usage

"Attorney General Eric Holder sternly mobilizes the Justice Department in a well-publicized search for some charge or other that the ever obedient British will accept to extradite him to the United States - and which will not inculpate the New York Times."

Antonym

exculpate

Verb Form

inculpated inculpates inculpating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

evoke paint a picture suggest

Form

inculpated inculpating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

blame accuse involv