What does Implicate mean?
Definitions for Implicate
ˈɪm plɪˌkeɪtim·pli·cate
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Princeton's WordNet
implicateverb
bring into intimate and incriminating connection
"He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"
entail, implicateverb
impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
"What does this move entail?"
Wiktionary
implicateverb
To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.
implicateverb
To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?
implicateverb
To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
Etymology: From implico, from plico
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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
Implicateverb
to infold; to fold together; to interweave
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
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
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, -ātum—in, in, plicāre, to fold.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Implicate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
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The numerical value of Implicate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Implicate in a Sentence
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
The fact the FSB is . trying to somehow implicate me in Nemtsov's murder is utterly ridiculous.
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.
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.
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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