implicate
[im-pli-keyt]
- 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.
- Archaic. to fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.
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Origin of implicate
Synonyms
See more synonyms for implicate on Thesaurus.com1. See involve.
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Examples from the Web for implicate
Contemporary Examples
Though there are many claims that implicate it in improved brain function, the evidence in support of this finding is tenuous.
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In Illinois, which houses some of the tougher DUI laws in the nation, even smoking a joint a week before can implicate you.
Several lines of scientific evidence have begun to implicate genes that control dopamine.
Pointing fingers, he stated “the people that I trusted to run it” are the ones to implicate.
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The lawyers accuse Headley of lying to implicate Rana in order to save his wife as well as his own life.
Historical Examples
There was nothing in what he had to tell them that could implicate Mr. Dunbar.
Henry DunbarM. E. Braddon
How or where she would not say—one had the impression that she feared to implicate some one.
Your son-in-law will certainly not endeavour to implicate you.
The Doctor of PimlicoWilliam Le Queux
And if she committed suicide, she would not implicate you in it by making you buy the poison.
If Winter Don'tBarry Pain
Now, however, you must do nothing more that might implicate you.
The Light of ScartheyEgerton Castle
implicate
- to show to be involved, esp in a crime
- to involve as a necessary inference; implyhis protest implicated censure by the authorities
- to affect intimatelythis news implicates my decision
- rare to intertwine or entangle
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin implicāre to involve, from im- + plicāre to fold
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Word Origin and History for implicate
v.
early 15c., "to convey in a fable;" c.1600, "intertwine, wreathe," from Latin implicatus, past participle of implicare "to involve, entwine" (see implication). Meaning "involve a person in a crime, charge, etc.," is from 1797. Related: Implicated; implicating.
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