All 3 Uses
incriminate
in
The Hiding Place
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- Mr. Smit set out before him the incriminating evidence he had found: two spoons and a piece of carrot on the stairs, pipe ashes in an "unoccupied" bedroom.†
p. 121.9 *incriminating = making appear guilty
- I burned incriminating papers in the long-empty coal hearth in the dining room.†
p. 135.5
- He says we can flush incriminating papers if we shred them fine enough.†
p. 149.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(incriminate) to make someone appear guilty
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (and more archaically), incriminate can mean to bring an accusation against.