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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: suggest that someone is guilty [syn: incriminate, imply, inculpate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-pated; -pating) Etymology: Late Latin inculpatus, from Latin in- + culpatus, past participle of culpare to blame, from culpa guilt Date: 1799 incriminate • inculpation noun • inculpatory adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 involve in a charge. 2 accuse, blame. Derivatives: inculpation n. inculpative adj. inculpatory adj. Etymology: LL inculpare (as IN-(2), culpare blame f. culpa fault)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inculpate In*cul"pate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inculpated; p. pr. & vb. n. Inculpating.] [LL. inculpatus, p. p. of inculpare to blame; pref. in- in + culpa fault. See Culpable.] Note: [A word of recent introduction.] To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt. That risk could only exculpate her and not inculpate them -- the probabilities protected them so perfectly. --H. James.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Accuse, charge, impeach, criminate, incriminate, blame, censure, impute guilt to, involve in guilt.