🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

归罪

Pronunciation / Transliteration: guīzuì

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Inculpate/ˈɪn.kʌl.peɪt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"证据足以归罪嫌疑人。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To accuse or incriminate; to show or prove that someone is responsible for a fault or crime.

    "The newly discovered forensic evidence served to inculpate the primary suspect."
  2. 2

    To blame or assign fault to someone in a formal or official context.

    "The committee report sought to inculpate several senior officials for the financial mismanagement."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb inculpāre, formed from the prefix in- (in, upon) and culpāre (to blame), which stems from culpa (blame, fault). Entering the English language in the late 16th century, the term shifted from a general ecclesiastical and legal sense of finding someone blameworthy to its modern precise application in formal jurisprudence.

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