implicate

1 bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"

2 impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?" [syn: entail]

English

Etymology

From implico, from plico

Verb

1. To show the involvement of someone in something, especially a crime.
2. To imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
3. To connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence

   ''The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.

4. To fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.

Translations

• Finnish: yhdistää
• German: verwickeln

Related terms

• implication
• implicit
• imply

See also

• ear
• inform
• squealer
• supergrass

Italian

Verb

implicate

1. second-person plural present tense of implicare
2. second-person plural imperative of implicare
3. feminine plural past participle of implicare

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