inculpate (in-KUHL-payt) verb tr.
To accuse; to incriminate.
[From Late Latin inculpatus, from Latin in- + culpatus, past participle of culpare to blame, from culpa fault.]
“`It had not been there the morning before.’ `How do you know?’
`Because I tidied out the wardrobe.’ `That is final. Then someone came
into your room and placed the pistol there in order to inculpate you.'”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge.
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