implicated

[im-pli-key-tid]

adjective

1. shown to be also involved, especially in an incriminating manner.

   In the wake of last year’s doping scandal, the Cycling Federation states that this year’s team will have no connection to any of the implicated team members, either directly or indirectly.

2. implied as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.

   My defensive post was answering an implicated accusation that clearly overstepped the boundaries of an opinion.

3. intimately connected or related, or affected as a result.

   The paper delves into the historical background of our modern understanding of time, as well as the implicated problem of infinity.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of implicate.

Other Word Forms

• unimplicated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of implicated¹

implicate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

The online campaigns also have wrongly implicated some people.

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He was released the same year the informant implicated him in Franco’s killing.

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Leila was present at the time, possibly implicated, and her response was to leave.

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The couple were among the most prominent figures implicated in the Varsity Blues college admission scandal in 2019.

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He was a close ally of former President Jacob Zuma and was implicated in what is known in South Africa as the state capture inquiry, which looked into allegations of high-level corruption during Zuma's presidency.

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Related Words

• involved