What does Implicate mean?

Definitions for Implicate
ˈɪm plɪˌkeɪtim·pli·cate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. implicateverb

    bring into intimate and incriminating connection

    "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"

  2. entail, implicateverb

    impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result

    "What does this move entail?"

Wiktionary

  1. implicateverb

    To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.

    The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.

  2. implicateverb

    To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.

    What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?

  3. implicateverb

    To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

  4. Etymology: From implico, from plico

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To IMPLICATEverb

    To entangle; to embarrass; to involve; to infold.

    Etymology: impliquer, Fr. implico, Latin.

    The ingredients of saltpetre do so mutually implicate and hinder each other, that the concrete acts but very languidly. Boyle.

ChatGPT

  1. implicate

    To implicate generally means to show or suggest that someone is involved in or connected to a crime, wrongdoing, or harmful situation, either directly or indirectly. It can also mean to convey or imply a particular idea or consequence. Implicate is also used in technical contexts to express the way certain factors or elements are intricately connected or related with each other.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Implicateverb

    to infold; to fold together; to interweave

  2. Implicateverb

    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

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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Implicate

    im′pli-kāt, 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. [L. implicāre, -ātumin, in, plicāre, to fold.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Implicate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Implicate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Implicate in a Sentence

  1. Lakshheish M Patel:

    No trader or retail investor can make money through stock market and if made a few thousands, everything has to be returned back via taxes or its goons will come to pull the trader up from his house and implicate him in all false cases to retrieve millions of money

  2. Adam Osmayev:

    The fact the FSB is . trying to somehow implicate me in Nemtsov's murder is utterly ridiculous.

  3. Susan Criss:

    In our trial, he had been recorded on the phone talking to his wife and friends, making a lot of admissions, and the state never used that, but he was aware that he had been recorded saying things that could implicate him in the murder that we were trying.

  4. Professor Felicity Gerry:

    Sentence bargaining can occur if Ghislaine Maxwells decides to give or has given information, this could implicate many people including Prince Andrew. Ghislaine Maxwells certainly has nothing to lose now that Ghislaine Maxwells is facing a significant sentence.

  5. Heidi Rehm:

    For Matchmaker Exchange our measure of success will be finding novel genes and matching patients with candidate genes to build evidence to implicate those genes in disease.

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