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Past tense of incriminate

regular verb

The past tense of incriminate is incriminated. The past participle is also incriminated.

Forms of incriminate

Base form (V1)incriminate /ɪnˈkɹɪm.ɪ.neɪ̯t/
Past tense (V2)incriminated
Past participle (V3)incriminated
Present participleincriminating
Third person singularincriminates

Incriminated in a sentence

  • The newspapers incriminated the innocent man unjustly.

Meaning of incriminate

  1. verb To accuse or bring criminal charges against.
  2. verb To indicate the guilt of.

Full definition of incriminate

Questions about the past tense of incriminate

What is the past tense of incriminate?
The past tense of incriminate is incriminated.
What is the past participle of incriminate?
The past participle of incriminate is incriminated.
Is incriminate a regular or irregular verb?
Incriminate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incriminate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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