What's the difference between incriminate and inculpate?

Incriminate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results point out the importance of detecting specific virulence factors before incriminating water as a source of human diarrhea.
  • (2) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
  • (3) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
  • (4) The clover constituents chiefly incriminated for these effects are glycosides of the isoflavone derivatives genistein and its 4'-methyl ether biochanin-A, daidzein and its 4'-methyl ether formononetin, and pratensein; coumestrol and its 3'- and 4'-methyl ethers account for the estrogenic activity of alfalfa.
  • (5) Recent reports incriminating Acanthamoeba, a small free-living amoeba, wide-spread in environmental soils and waters, in acanthamoebic keratitis cases wearing soft contact lenses, drew attention to cleaning solutions for contact lenses.
  • (6) Some of these viruses have been incriminated in the development of leukemia in primates.
  • (7) The most commonly incriminated drugs was isoniazid followed by pyrazinamide.
  • (8) The three main drugs incriminated are oxyphenisatine, alphamethyldopa and isoniazid.
  • (9) The nationwide epidemic ended in middle April 1974 following removal of incriminated hamsters from pet shops throughout the country and voluntary cessation of distribution of hamsters from the incriminated breeder.
  • (10) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
  • (11) The major type IV allergens incriminated were metals, onion and garlic.
  • (12) While P. papatasi is a known vector of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, P. langeroni is an incriminated vector for infantile visceral leishmaniasis, P. papatasi is the predominant species in the Nile Delta, but P. langeroni is found in West Alexandria and as a very rare species at the Libyan Egyptian borders.
  • (13) Various factors are incriminated in the vasculitides etiology, despite the fact that, in most of the cases, the etiologic agents are unknown.
  • (14) The radiological analysis of femoro-tibial compartments in comparison with the non operative side showed a clear pejorative difference in one case, moderate in 5 without incriminating the morphological type.
  • (15) Our aim was to determine the incriminating contacts within a complex material such as a final product, in which the incriminated allergen is often and almost always present in a lesser concentration than the one that is needed to provoke a positive Patch test in sensitized individuals.
  • (16) The newborn is rather small, more in weight than size or cranial circumference, without the possibility of incriminating only the ethnic factor.
  • (17) These results suggest a role for oral vancomycin treatment of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis which persists for extended periods despite discontinuation of the incriminated antimicrobial.
  • (18) As all other factors of microclimate were within the normal range of zoohygiene standards, the basic factor which was incriminated to affect both productivity and forage intake per egg was the amount of the microbial flora of the air.
  • (19) Several infective organisms, both bacterial and fungal, have been incriminated but infection due to tubercle bacilli has not, to our knowledge, been reported.
  • (20) In our caselist of 21 patients with probable reactions to foods but negative DBFC, 19 (90.5%) tolerated the "incriminated" food well when it was reintroduced into their diet even in unlimited amounts.

Inculpate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Current emphasis on quality assurance dictates reconsideration of the literature on reproducibility of histopathologic taxonomy, which has tended to inculpate pathologists as sources of variability.
  • (2) They didn't consider it material to their findings, but rather one that might unfairly inculpate the captain.
  • (3) Motortown created a furore for the way it inculpated audiences for Britain's part in the war in Iraq.
  • (4) The London mayor, and potential future Tory leader, Boris Johnson, writes in the Telegraph : If there is new and better evidence that inculpates Assad, I see no reason why the government should not lay a new motion before Parliament, inviting British participation.

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