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implicate
[ im-pli-keyt ]
verb (used with object)
- 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.
implicate
/ ˈɪmplɪˌkeɪt; ɪmˈplɪkətɪv /
verb
- to show to be involved, esp in a crime
- to involve as a necessary inference; imply
his protest implicated censure by the authorities
- to affect intimately
this news implicates my decision
- rare.to intertwine or entangle
Derived Forms
- ˈپ, adverb
- implicative, adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of implicate1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of implicate1
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Example Sentences
The documents also implicate Libyan agents in the destruction of a French airliner that crashed in the Sahara desert in 1989, killing another 170 people.
For weeks, she has wondered about the threat, concerned that residents could be implicated.
To increase the amount of funding available the Public Accounts Committee called for the manufacturers of materials implicated in the Grenfell Tower Fire to also face a levy.
Before he pleaded no contest, he claimed that prosecutors told him he could get a far lesser sentence — much like Austin’s — if he implicated his ex-lover.
“Here There Are Blueberries” implicates the present and the future as much as it does the past.
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