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Implicate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot.

v. To have as a consequence or necessary circumstance; imply or entail: His evasiveness implicated complicity.

v. Linguistics To convey, imply, or suggest by implicature.

v. Archaic To interweave or entangle; entwine.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.

v. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.

v. To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

v. To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To infold or fold over; involve; entangle.

To cause to be affected; show to be concerned or have a part; bring into connection or relation: with by, in, or with: as, the disease implicates other organs; the evidence implicates several persons in the crime.

Synonyms Implicate, Involve, Entangle. Implicate and involve are similar words, but with a marked difference. The first means to fold into a thing; the second, to roll into it. What is folded, however, may be folded but once or partially; what is involved is rolled many times. Hence, men are said to be implicated when they are only under suspicion, or have taken but a small share in a transaction; they are said to be involved when they are deeply concerned. In this sense implicate is always used of persons; involve may be used of persons or things; both words being always metaphorically employed. Entangle is used either literally or metaphorically, and signifies to involve so that extrication is a matter of extreme difficulty.

n. The thing implied; that which results from implication.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result

v. bring into intimate and incriminating connection

Word Usage

"He demands that we learn to regard matter and life as a whole, coherent domain, which he calls the implicate order"

Verb Form

implicated implicates implicating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

lead involve regard affect

Cross Reference

inform ear supergrass squealer

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

involve connect imply