1. 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
Derived forms noun implication3, noun implication5
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
2. 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 implication1, noun implication2, noun implication4
Sample sentences:
Something ----s something
1. To infold; to fold together; to interweave. [1913 Webster]
"The meeting boughs and implicated leaves." [1913 Webster]
2. 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]
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.
Derivative:
implicative adj. implicatively adv.
Etymology:
L implicatus past part. of implicare (as IN-(2), plicare, plicat- or plicit- fold)
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.
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.