implicate

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implicate

to connect or involve incriminatingly: implicate a witness; to imply: implicate that someone is guilty

Not to be confused with:

explicate – to unfold; to make the meaning clear, explain: explicate a theory

im·pli·cate

(ĭm′plĭ-kāt′)

tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates

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

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

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

4. Archaic To interweave or entangle; entwine.

[Middle English, to convey a truth bound up in a fable, from Latin implicāre, implicāt-, to entangle, unite : in-, in; see in-² + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.]

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implicate

(ˈɪmplɪˌkeɪt)

vb (tr)

1. to show to be involved, esp in a crime

2. to involve as a necessary inference; imply: his protest implicated censure by the authorities.

3. to affect intimately: this news implicates my decision.

4. rare to intertwine or entangle

[C16: from Latin implicāre to involve, from im- + plicāre to fold]

implicative adj

imˈplicatively adv

imˈplicativeness n

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im•pli•cate

(ˈɪm plɪˌkeɪt)

v.t. -cat•ed, -cat•ing.

1. to show to be involved, usu. in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.

2. to involve as a necessary circumstance; imply.

3. to affect as a consequence: Malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.

4. Archaic. to fold or twist together; intertwine.

[1530–40; < Latin implicāre to interweave =im- im-¹ + plicāre to ply²]

implicate

Past participle: implicated
Gerund: implicating

Imperative
implicate
implicate

Present
I implicate
you implicate
he/she/it implicates
we implicate
you implicate
they implicate

Preterite
I implicated
you implicated
he/she/it implicated
we implicated
you implicated
they implicated

Present Continuous
I am implicating
you are implicating
he/she/it is implicating
we are implicating
you are implicating
they are implicating

Present Perfect
I have implicated
you have implicated
he/she/it has implicated
we have implicated
you have implicated
they have implicated

Past Continuous
I was implicating
you were implicating
he/she/it was implicating
we were implicating
you were implicating
they were implicating

Past Perfect
I had implicated
you had implicated
he/she/it had implicated
we had implicated
you had implicated
they had implicated

Future
I will implicate
you will implicate
he/she/it will implicate
we will implicate
you will implicate
they will implicate

Future Perfect
I will have implicated
you will have implicated
he/she/it will have implicated
we will have implicated
you will have implicated
they will have implicated

Future Continuous
I will be implicating
you will be implicating
he/she/it will be implicating
we will be implicating
you will be implicating
they will be implicating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been implicating
you have been implicating
he/she/it has been implicating
we have been implicating
you have been implicating
they have been implicating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been implicating
you will have been implicating
he/she/it will have been implicating
we will have been implicating
you will have been implicating
they will have been implicating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been implicating
you had been implicating
he/she/it had been implicating
we had been implicating
you had been implicating
they had been implicating

Conditional
I would implicate
you would implicate
he/she/it would implicate
we would implicate
you would implicate
they would implicate

Past Conditional
I would have implicated
you would have implicated
he/she/it would have implicated
we would have implicated
you would have implicated
they would have implicated

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Verb	1.	implicate - bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government" involve, regard, affect - connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
	2.	implicate - impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?" entail lead - tend to or result in; "This remark lead to further arguments among the guests"

implicate

verb incriminate, involve, compromise, embroil, entangle, inculpate He didn't find anything in the notebooks to implicate her.
eliminate, rule out, acquit, exclude, dissociate, disentangle, exculpate

implicate something or someone in something involve in, associate with, connect with, tie up with This particular system has been implicated in alcohol effects.

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implicate

verb

1. To draw in so that extrication is difficult:

catch up, embrangle, embroil, involve, mix up, suck.

2. To cause to appear involved in or guilty of a crime or fault:

criminate, incriminate, inculpate.

Translations

ενοχοποιώ

merkitäyhdistää

empêtrer entortiller

implicare implicazione implicitamente coinvolgere

implicate

[ˈɪmplɪkeɪt] VT to implicate sb in sth → implicar or involucrar a algn en algo
are you implicated in this? → ¿estás implicado en esto?
he implicated three others → implicó a otros tres

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implicate

[ˈɪmplɪkeɪt] vt [+ person] → impliquer
to be implicated in sth [person] → être impliqué(e) dans qch
to be implicated in the development of a disease (= be a factor in) → être impliqué(e) dans le développement d'une maladie

implicate

vt to implicate somebody in something → jdn in etw verwickeln

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implicate

[ˈɪmplɪˌkeɪt] vt to implicate sb in sth → implicare qn in qc

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'It ain't what I implicate, it's what Gaffer implicated,' was the dogged and determined answer.

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The answer known, he had yielded to Albert's wish to be introduced to Haidee, and allowed the conversation to turn on the death of Ali, and had not opposed Haidee's recital (but having, doubtless, warned the young girl, in the few Romaic words he spoke to her, not to implicate Morcerf's father).

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I think I could go so far as to say that it would be impossible to implicate us.

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Now, there was no reasonable evidence to implicate any person but this woman, and, on the improbabilities of her having been able to do it, Mr.

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Should they even trace the animal, it would be impossible to prove me cognizant of the murder, or to implicate me in guilt on account of that cognizance.

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The mention of the thing he thought he perceived was involuntary on Sam's part at first, and his confused attempts to dissuade him he set down to a desperate lying on second thoughts, as being unwilling to implicate Liza.

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"Very good," said the queen, "be as grateful as you like, it does not implicate me; you are here safe and sound, that is all I wished for; you are not only welcome, but welcome back."

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A man from Kakamega who had been charged with defiling an 11-year-old girl has been set free after the minor told a court that she had been asked to lie about the incident by her mother.She told Chief Magistrate Bildad Ochieng' that her mother had asked her to implicate the accused, Mr Maurice Muhanda.

Man on defilement charge freed after girl says she lied

Wholeness and the implicate order is a model of reality (in general) and consciousness (in particular) which was first proposed by David Bohm in 1980 [2].

On wholeness and the implicate order in crystals and its implications for consciousness studies

Both men later recanted their testimony, and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that investigated Hariri's death ultimately failed to implicate Syria in the assassination.

Syria sentences two for 'false Hariri testimony'

As our Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani returns from America, the US media has started to blast the role of ISI at full throttle, and the leading newspapers across America are trying to implicate ISI with the militants, and they are calling it proxy help by ISI to the Afghan militants.One must hope that all those involved in the war on terror have learnt some lessons from their experience of the Afghan war, and especially the Americans from the Vietnam war.

US media implicating ISI with militants

Second is In the Name of the Father, a film about a petty robber from Belfast named Gerry Conlon, whom the British implicate and imprison for an IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people.