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   Im·pli·cate

   /ˈimpləˌkāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. show (someone) to be involved in a crime: "police claims implicated him in many more killings" Similar incriminatecompromiseinvolveconnectembroilenmeshensnareexposearchaic:inculpateOpposite absolve
   • ▪ bear some of the responsibility for (an action or process, especially a criminal or harmful one): "the team believes he is heavily implicated in the bombing" Similar involve inconcern withassociate withconnect withtie up with
   • ▪ involve (something) in a necessary way: US "cable franchise activities plainly implicate First Amendment interests"
   • 2. convey (a meaning or intention) indirectly through what one says, rather than stating it explicitly; imply: "by saying that coffee would keep her awake, Mary implicated that she didn't want any" Similar implysuggesthintintimatesay indirectlyindicateinsinuategive someone to understandgive someone to believeconvey the impressionsignalinformal:make out

   noun

   • 1. a thing implied.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin implicatus ‘folded in’, past participle of implicare (see imply). The original sense was ‘entwine’; compare with employ and imply. The earliest modern (implicate (sense 2 of the verb)), dates from the early 17th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. implicatory adjective

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