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inculpate

inculpate verb: to imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.

Verb

inculpate (third-person singular simple present inculpates, present participle inculpating, simple past and past participle inculpated)

  1. To imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.
    • “In a way that appears suspicious? That seems to inculpate me, perhaps?”2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 140

inculpate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

inculpate in Tamil

குற்றம் சாட்டு

inculpate in Urdu

بہتان لگانا, دوش دینا, الزام لگانا

inculpate in Bengali

অভিযুক্ত করা, দোষারোপ করা

inculpate in Malayalam

incriminate, implicate, enmesh
കുറ്റത്തിലുൾപ്പെടുത്തുക, കുറ്റക്കാരനാക്കുക, അപരാധിയാക്കുക, പഴി ചുമത്തുക, വളയ്ക്കുക, അകപ്പെടുത്തുക
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inculpate in Kannada
ತಪ್ಪುಹೊರಿಸು

Synonyms of inculpate

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Forms of inculpate

third-person singular presentinculpates
present participleinculpating
past participleinculpated
pastinculpated

Origin of inculpate

From Late Latin inculpo.

Questions about inculpate

What does inculpate mean?
Inculpate means to imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.
What is inculpate in Tamil?
Inculpate in Tamil is குற்றம் சாட்டு. See Inculpate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is inculpate?
Inculpate is a verb.
What is the past tense of inculpate?
The past tense of inculpate is inculpated.

Words near inculpate in the dictionary

  1. inculks
  2. inculpability
  3. inculpable
  4. inculpableness
  5. inculpably
  6. inculpate
  7. inculpated
  8. inculpates
  9. inculpating
  10. inculpation
  11. inculpations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inculpate (page history and authors); inculpate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inculpate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inculpate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inculpate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inculpate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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