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   implicate

   verb

   • 1. show (someone) to be involved in a crime: "he was implicated in a price-fixing scandal" Similar incriminatecompromiseinvolveconnectembroilenmeshensnareexposearchaic:inculpateOpposite absolve
   • ▪ bear some of the responsibility for (an action or process, especially a criminal or harmful one): "viruses are known to be implicated in the development of certain cancers" Similar involve inconcern withassociate withconnect withtie up with
   • 2. convey (a meaning) indirectly through what one says, rather than stating it explicitly: "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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   What does implicaten mean in a fable?

   • Send us feedback about these examples. Middle English implicaten "to convey (a truth) in a fable," borrowed from Latin implicātus, past participle of implicāre "to fold about itself, entwine, entangle, involve, embroil" (Medieval Latin also, "to imply, mean by implication"), from im- im- + plicāre "to fold, bend" — more at ply entry 3

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   • Pick the best words! Can you outdo past winners of the National Spelli... The meaning of IMPLICATE is to bring into intimate or incriminating connection. How to use implicate in a sentence.

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   What does it mean if someone is implicated in a crime?

   • Implicate can have criminal connotations when it means "to connect in an incriminating manner," like when detectives figure out who drove the getaway car in the bank robbery — that person will be implicated for his or her role in the crime. "Implicate."

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   What is the past tense of implicate?

   • the simple past tense and past participle of implicate ( def ). The detailed information may not be collected because of inadequate testing, and that directly implicates outcomes. The SEC reportedly started a fraud inquiry, and Nikola founder Trevor Milton, who was directly implicated in Hindenburg’s report, resigned from his role as CEO.

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   Learn the meaning of implicate, a verb that means to bring into intimate or incriminating connection, to involve as a consequence, or to fold or twist together. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles.

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   Implicated is the past tense and past participle of implicate, which means to show that someone is involved in a crime or partly responsible for something bad. See how to use implicated in sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus and other sources.

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   Implicated definition: shown to be also involved, especially in an incriminating manner. See examples of IMPLICATED used in a sentence.

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   bring into intimate and incriminating connection. “He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government”. see more. see less. type of: affect, involve, regard. connect closely and often incriminatingly. verb. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result.

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   to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime. to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood. to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.