Implicate

Quick meaning: Implicate is a verb meaning (transitive, usually with in) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.

Meaning

(transitive, usually with in) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, nonstandard) To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
2. (pragmatics) To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
3. (philosophy) The thing implied.
4. (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
5. (rare, also figuratively) Intertwined, enfolded, twisted together; wrapped up (with), entangled, involved (in).
6. (obsolete) Involved, intricate.

Example Sentences

What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?

The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.

I shall cancel, without further provocation, the next lecture engagement that is implicated with a peep o' day train.

Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

Word Forms

• implicates
• implicating
• implicated

Synonyms for implicate

Depending on context, synonyms include ensnarl, involve, ravel, enmesh, ensnare, entangle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entail, participation, involve, imply, accuse, indicate.

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