implicate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: im=pli=cate

CIDE DICTIONARY

implicate, v. t. [L. implicatus, p. p. of implicare to involve; pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicit.].

•  To infold; to fold together; to interweave.  [1913 Webster]

  "The meeting boughs and implicated leaves."  [1913 Webster]
•  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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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)

THESAURUS

implicate

absorb, affect, allegorize, allude to, assail, associate, assume, attack, ball up, bring, bring to mind, call for, catch up in, censure, complicate, comprise, concern, confound, confuse, connect, connote, contain, criminate, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, draw in, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, engage, enmesh, ensnare, entail, entangle, entrap, foul up, hint, imply, import, impugn, include, incriminate, inculpate, infer, insinuate, interest, intimate, involve, knot, lead to, louse up, mean, mean to say, mess up, mire, mix up, muck up, muddle, perplex, point indirectly to, presume, presuppose, ramify, ravel, require, screw up, snarl, snarl up, subsume, suck into, suggest, suppose, suspect, take, take for granted, take in, tangle

ROGET THESAURUS

implicate

Composition

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.

Accusation

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.