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to implicate
01
to involve or suggest someone's participation or connection in a crime or wrongdoing
Transitive: to implicate sb
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
action verb
regular
present tense
implicate
3rd person singular
implicates
present participle
implicating
past simple
implicated
past participle
implicated
Examples
Witness testimony served to implicate the suspect in the bank robbery.
02
to convey something indirectly
Transitive: to implicate sth | to implicate that
Examples
The actor 's peculiar delivery implicated an unspoken subtext in the character's motivations beyond what was scripted.
Lexical Tree
implicative
implicature
implicate
