implicate

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 0.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.

   The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.

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

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

3. verb To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
4. verb To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
5. noun The thing implied.
6. adjective Intertwined, enfolded, twisted together; wrapped up (with), entangled, involved (in). used in implicate order
7. adjective used in implicate order
8. adjective Involved, intricate.

Similar words

entail participation mean involve imply accuse indicate engage jeopardize drag

Often followed by

the order a him them her me his of any

Word family

implicated implicates implicating implication implications