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implicate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb implicate has 2 senses
- implicate(v = verb.stative) Array - bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government" is one way to affect, involve, regard
- implicate(v = verb.stative) entail - impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?" is one way to lead
Derived forms noun implication3, noun implication5
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun implication1, noun implication2, noun implication4
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
implicate, v. t. [L. implicatus, p. p. of implicare to involve; pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicit.].
- To infold; to fold together; to interweave. [1913 Webster]"The meeting boughs and implicated leaves." [1913 Webster]
- To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
implicate, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 (often foll. by in) show (a person) to be concerned or involved (in a charge, crime, etc.).
2 (in passive; often foll. by in) be affected or involved.
3 lead to as a consequence or inference.
--n. a thing implied.
--v.tr.
1 (often foll. by in) show (a person) to be concerned or involved (in a charge, crime, etc.).
2 (in passive; often foll. by in) be affected or involved.
3 lead to as a consequence or inference.
--n. a thing implied.
Derivative
implicative adj. implicatively adv.
Etymology
L implicatus past part. of implicare (as IN-(2), plicare, plicat- or plicit- fold)
THESAURUS
implicate
absorb, affect, allegorize, allude to, assail, associate, assume, attack, ball up, bring, bring to mind, call for, catch up in, censure, complicate, comprise, concern, confound, confuse, connect, connote, contain, criminate, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, draw in, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, engage, enmesh, ensnare, entail, entangle, entrap, foul up, hint, imply, import, impugn, include, incriminate, inculpate, infer, insinuate, interest, intimate, involve, knot, lead to, louse up, mean, mean to say, mess up, mire, mix up, muck up, muddle, perplex, point indirectly to, presume, presuppose, ramify, ravel, require, screw up, snarl, snarl up, subsume, suck into, suggest, suppose, suspect, take, take for granted, take in, tangleROGET THESAURUS
implicate
Composition
VB be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of, consist of, be resolved into, include, contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody, involve, implicate, drag into, compose, constitute, form, make, make up, fill up, build up, enter into the composition of.Accusation
VB accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach, brand with reproach, stigmatize, slur, cast a stone at, cast a slur on, incriminate, criminate, inculpate, implicate, call to account, take to blame, take to task, put in the black book, inform against, indict, denounce, arraign, impeach, appeach, have up, show up, pull up, challenge, cite, lodge a complaint, prosecute, bring an action against, blow upon, charge with, saddle with, lay to one's door, lay charge, lay the blame on, bring home to, cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth, cast the first stone at, have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for, have a crow to pluck with, trump up a charge.
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