implicate
verb /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt 
/ [with object]
/ [with object]1Show (someone) to be involved in a crime: he implicated his government in the murders of three judges...
- I was able to show that several had been ‘doctored’ after Mary's forced abdication to justify what her enemies had done to her, implicating her in crimes she didn't commit.
- Then if I am ever implicated in a crime that I didn't commit, I can prove my exact whereabouts beyond any reasonable doubt.
- She had always felt that, by refusing to implicate him in the crime of adultery, she was saving him from the ruin that she faced every day.
Synonyms
incriminate, compromise;
involve, connect, embroil, enmesh, ensnare;
expose
archaic inculpate
1.1 (be implicated in) Bear some of the responsibility for (an action or process, especially a criminal or harmful one): viruses are known to be implicated in the development of certain cancers...
- Bellbirds have been implicated in the death of swathes of forest between Victoria and Queensland.
- You can't get a man who's clean and not a single American rider has been implicated in these latest charges.
- Under circumstances like these, whether he was implicated in the taking was an issue of fact for the jury.
Synonyms
involve in, concern with, associate with, connect with, tie up with
2 [with clause] Convey (a meaning) indirectly through what one says, rather than stating it explicitly: by saying that coffee would keep her awake, Mary implicated that she didn’t want any...
- Using the media richness concept implicates that the content of messages conveyed through the different electronic media should be in accordance with their specific characteristics.
- This implicates that the man would know everything in order to be questioned by his less knowledgeable wife who would not be allowed to speak there anyway.
- She is the walking example that being ‘physically challenged’ does not implicate that one cannot be successful.
noun /ˈɪmplɪkət / Logic
/ LogicA thing implied.The dual nature of the Heart represents the meeting of the changeless and the changing, the inevitable and the contingent, the implicate and the manifest....
- This is an implicate of the inscripturation of revelation.
Derivatives
implicative
/ adjective ...- Once it is in conjunctive normal form, it is easy to convert it in implicative normal form.
implicatively
- That nuclear radiation, due directly or indirectly to human action, is implicatively one with the core explosion.
- Its symbol mark is a visual image implicatively expressing its idea and goal and is the most important element and the core of all visual information systems.
- According to meta-semiotics and meta-cybernetics generic human and human gender implicatively prescribe the development of social institutes.
implicatory
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin implicatus 'folded in', past participle of implicare (see imply). The original sense was 'entwine'; compare with employ and imply. The earliest modern (sense 2 of the verb), dates from the early 17th century.