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culprit

/ˈkʌlprɪt/

Translations

culpritnoun

culprits

/ˈkʌlprɪt/

The police finally caught the culprit responsible for the theft.

Полиция наконец поймала виновника кражи.

The culprit was sentenced to five years in prison.

Преступник был приговорен к пяти годам тюрьмы.

Additional translations

Synonyms

guilty party

culpritadjective

/ˈkʌl.prɪt/

Used attributively before another noun, e.g. "the culprit gene".

culpritnoun

A person or thing responsible for a crime or misdeed.

The police finally caught the culprit who had been vandalizing the neighborhood.

A cause of a problem or defect.

The real culprit behind the engine failure was a faulty spark plug.

culpritadjective

Attributive: responsible for causing a particular problem, condition, or situation.

Researchers traced the illness to a culprit bacterium in the water supply.