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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
Examples
Witness testimony served to implicate the suspect in the bank robbery.
Evidence collected at the crime scene directly implicated two of the defendants.
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.
Though never stated outright, comments from witnesses implicated that the two might have had some prior disagreement.
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