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implicate

[im-pli-keyt]

Origin

verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.

to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.

to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.

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

Origin:
1530–40; < Latin implicātus past participle of implicāre to interweave, equivalent to im- im-¹ + plicā(re) to ply² + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

un·im·pli·cat·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1. See involve.

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implicate (ˈɪmplɪˌkeɪt)

—vb
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*

im'plicatively

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

implicate

"involve a person in a crime, charge, etc," 1797; see implication.

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"Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities."

-George Washington

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