implicate

English

Etymology

From Latin implico (“entangle, involve”), from plico (“fold”)

Verb

implicate (third-person singular simple present implicates, present participle implicating, simple past and past participle implicated)

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

   The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.

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

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

3. (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

Related terms

• implication
• implicative
• implicit
• implicitness
• imply

Translations

to connect or involve

Dutch: impliceren (nl) Finnish: yhdistää (fi)

French: impliquer (fr)

to have as a necessary circumstance

Finnish: merkitä (fi)

French: impliquer (fr)

to intertwine — see intertwine

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German: verwickeln

See also

• ear
• inform
• squealer
• supergrass

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Italian

Verb

implicate

1. second-person plural present tense of implicare
2. second-person plural imperative of implicare
3. feminine plural past participle of implicare

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Latin

Participle

implicāte

1. vocative masculine singular of implicātus