Implicate
['ɪmplɪkeɪt] or ['ɪmplɪket]
Definition
(verb.) bring into intimate and incriminating connection; 'He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To infold; to fold together; to interweave.
(v. t.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Infold, entangle.[2]. Involve, make participator, prove to be concerned, bring into connection with.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Connect, associate, charge, criminate, involve, entangle, infold, compromise
ANT:Disconnect, dissociate, acquit, extricate
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Definition
v.t. (with by in with) to enfold: to involve: to entangle.—ns. Im′plicate the thing implied; Implicā′tion the act of implicating: entanglement: that which is implied.—adj. Im′plicative tending to implicate.—adv. Im′plicatively.—adj. Implic′it implied: relying entirely unquestioning: (rare) entangled involved.—adv. Implic′itly.—n. Implic′itness.
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Examples
- This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nothing was found to implicate him in any way, and there the matter dropped. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It ain't what I implicate, it's what Gaffer implicated,' was the dogged and determined answer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And you implicate no other person? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She wanted to hear, but she did not want to be implicated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They were implicated with each other in abhorrent mysteries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No implicated man or woman took untimely courage, or made a self-betraying step. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Could he have become implicated in anything Frederick had done? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Edison told all the circumstances with a painful sense of being in some way implicated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A noise may make me jump without my mind being implicated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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