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to show that someone is involved in a crime or partly responsible for something bad that has happened: implicate someone in something Have they any evidence to implicate him in the robbery? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Blaming & accusing. accusatory. accuse someone of a crime. accuse someone of something. accuser. accusingly.
1. a. : to bring into intimate or incriminating connection. evidence that implicates him in the bombing. b. : to involve in the nature or operation of something. 2. : to involve as a consequence, corollary, or natural inference : imply. 3. archaic : to fold or twist together : entwine. Synonyms. enlace. entwine. interlace. intertwine. intertwist.
to show that someone is involved in a crime or partly responsible for something bad that has happened: implicate someone in something Have they any evidence to implicate him in the robbery? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Blaming & accusing. accusatory. accuse someone of a crime. accuse someone of something. accuser. accusingly.
Definitions of implicate. verb. bring into intimate and incriminating connection. “He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government” see more. type of: affect, involve, regard. connect closely and often incriminatingly. verb. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result. synonyms: entail. see more. lead. Cite this entry.
Someone who is implicated in something is shown to be somehow involved in it. The word is often used in a negative sense, suggesting an involvement in something wrong, with the person being implicated by the facts of the case.
to show that someone is involved in a crime or partly responsible for something bad that has happened: A lot of people were implicated in the scandal. (Definition of implicate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of implicate.
implicate something (in/as something) to show or suggest that something is the cause of something bad. The results implicate poor hygiene as one cause of the outbreak. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin. Idioms. be implicated in something. to be involved in a crime; to be responsible for something bad.
to be involved in a crime; to be responsible for something bad Senior officials were implicated in the scandal. See implicate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
verb (used with object) , im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·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:
If someone or something is implicated in a crime or a bad situation, they are involved in it or responsible for it.
