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Inculpate

Definition: Inculpate

Inculpate

Verb

1. 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: Inculpate

Synonyms: imply (v), incriminate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Inculpate

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Inculpate

English words defined with "inculpate": Inculp, Inculpated, Inculpating. (references)
Etymologies containing "inculpate": Inculp. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Inculpate

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Inculpate

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Inculpate

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

in-. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Inculpate

Derivations

Words beginning with "inculpate": inculpated, inculpates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Inculpate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inclupate, inculate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Inculpate"

Words rhyming with "inculpate" (pronounced 'In*cul"pate'): Clodpate, Pupate, Scopate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Inculpate

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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