implicate
verb (used with object)
to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner.
was implicating
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past progressiveof implicate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In 2007, he encountered a prime opportunity to show his political skills: a corruption scandal in Shanghai was implicating associates of Jiang Zemin, the powerful former President, who served from 1989 to 2002.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015
For, in an instant, he had realized what was happening, how by this last statement the guard was implicating the Sergeant, who had been so recently upbraiding him.
From With Joffre at Verdun A Story of the Western Front by Archibald Webb
