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

Carr's letter also stated that he was "writing to determine whether any FCC regulations have been implicated by the BBC's misleading and deceptive conduct".

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Kenya's Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said: "The government of Kenya does not sanction harassment, or violence against any citizen... any officer implicated in unlawful conduct bears individual responsibility and is subject to investigation and sanction."

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Several of those implicated in the scandal have close links to the Ukrainian president.

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The nation’s reigning mob boss, also implicated in the plot, has eluded arrest.

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The anti-corruption agency then gradually released a series of videos featuring wiretapped conversations of those implicated in the scheme.

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Related Words

• involved