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Definition: Inculpate |
InculpateVerb1. Suggest that someone is guilty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inculpate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Note: Inculpate \In*cul"pate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Inculpated; present participle verb or noun Inculpating.]. (references) |
Synonyms: InculpateSynonyms: imply (v), incriminate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accusation | Brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account; (censure); take to blame, take to task; put in the black book. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inculpate |
| English words defined with "inculpate": Inculp, Inculpated, Inculpating. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inculpate": Inculp. (references) |
| "Inculpate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inculpate" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "inculpate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | implikoj (incriminate), ngarkoj me faj, fajësoj (accuse, blame, convict, impute the fault to another, incriminate, rap). (various references) | |
Arabic | ورط في جريمة (incriminate), إتهم بجريمة (incriminate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обвинявам в престъпление (criminate, incriminate), замесвам в престъпление (incriminate). (various references) | |
Czech | obvinit (accuse, condemn, delate, impeach, incriminate, indict, lay up blame, tax). (various references) | |
French | inculper. (various references) | |
German | beschuldigen (accuse, blame, charge, impeach, incriminate, indict, to accuse, to blame, to incriminate). (various references) | |
Greek | κατηγορώ (accuse, allege, arraign, blam, blame, charge, charge somebody with, charge with, decry, impeachment, impute, indict, reproach), ενοχοποιώ (frame, implicate, incriminate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להפליל (incriminate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vádol (accuse, blame, charge, criminate, denounce, incriminate, indict, to accuse, to charge, to impeach, to incriminate, to indict), hibáztat (blame, to blame, to fault, to incriminate, to lay sg at sy's door), gáncsol (animadvert, to reflect, to trip). (various references) | |
Italian | incriminare (accuse, article, book, incriminate, indict), incolpare (accuse, blame, blame oneself, charge). (various references) | |
Manx | kyndaghey (charge, charge assert, commit, committal, criminate, crimination, incriminate, incrimination, inculpation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inculpateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inculpar, incriminar (accuse, criminate, frame up, incriminate, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold), censurar (admonish, animadvert, berate, blame, carp, censor, censure, chide, condemn, damn, deprecate, expostulate, find fault with, gloss, impeach, inveigh, jaw, land on, lecture, lesson, nibble, objurgate, quarrel, rebuke, red-pencil, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, twit, upbraid, vituperate), acusar (accuse, acknowledge, blame, charge, impeach, incriminate, indict, libel, make an accusation, own, reproach). (various references) | |
Romanian | incrimina (accuse, incriminate), acuza (accuse, arraign, article, bring a charge, charge, crime, criminate, impeach, reprehend, swear). (various references) | |
Russian | обвинять (accuse, arraign, charge, delate, impeach, incriminate, inform against). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | inkriminisati, okriviti (accuse, blame, charge, impeach, incriminate). (various references) | |
Spanish | inculpar (incriminate), incriminar (frame, incriminate), librar de culpa, culpar (accuse, blame, incriminate, tax), acusar (accuse, arraign, article, betoken, charge, contradict, delate, denounce, display, exhibit, incriminate, pin on, register, tax), acriminar (accuse, incriminate). (various references) | |
Swedish | beskylla (accuse, charge, impute, tax), anklaga (accuse, arraign, charge, impeach, incriminate, indict, tag, tax, try). (various references) | |
Turkish | suçlamak (accuse, arraign, blame, bring an accusation against smb., censure, charge, charge smb. with smth., chastise, condemn, criminate, excoriate, impeach, impute, incriminate, indict, put in the dock, put the blame on smb., reproach, task, tax), suça bulaştırmak, suç yüklemek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | викривати (accuse, belie, debunk, denounce, show up, unclose, unfrock, unmask), обвинувачувати (accuse, argue, arraign, article, bill, delate, denounce, fault, impute, incriminate, indict). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | in-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inculpate": inculpated, inculpates. (additional references) | |
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"Inculpate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inclupate, inculate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "inculpate" (pronounced 'In*cul"pate'): Clodpate, Pupate, Scopate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-p-t-u" | |
-2 letters: alunite, capelin, cauline, cleanup, cutline, linecut, lunatic, nuptial, panicle, pantile, peculia, pelican, petunia, picante, plicate, tunicae, tunicle, unplait. | |
-3 letters: acetin, aculei, alpine, aplite, apneic, atelic, auntie, cantle, caplet, caplin, catlin, catnip, centai, cental, client, culpae, cuneal, eluant, enatic, entail, epical, incept, incult, inlace, lacune, lancet, launce, lectin, lentic, leucin, lineup, lucent, luetic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: inculpated, inculpates, paniculate, peculating, peculation. | |
+2 letters: cupellation, exculpating, exculpation, peculations, petulancies, speculating, speculation. | |
+3 letters: conduplicate, cupellations, exculpations, incomputable, inoperculate, postulancies, speculations, unapologetic, unduplicated. | |
+4 letters: conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptualist, conceptuality, conceptualize, encapsulating, encapsulation, inoperculates, pneumatically, pneumatolytic, punctualities, quintuplicate, reduplicating, reduplication, republication, uncapitalized, uncomplicated, unexceptional, unpredictable, unpredictably, unproblematic. | |
+5 letters: conceptualised, conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, conceptualized, conceptualizer, conceptualizes, encapsulations, municipalities, nonspeculative, pertinaciously, prepublication, quintuplicated, quintuplicates, recapitulating, recapitulation, reduplications, republications, sextuplicating, ultraprecision, unemphatically, unpredictables. | |
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