to implicate

Examples

• All

• His careless remarks could implicate his colleagues in the ongoing controversy.

• The whole town would be implicated if you were exposed.

  Clue (1985)

• This is gonna implicate too many people.

  The Negotiator (1998)

• These are issues, we should be clear, that really implicate the deepest challenges to our democracy.

• Because anything that implicates me, implicates you as well.

  War Dogs (2016)

• Mr Sloan did not implicate Mr Haldeman in that testimony at all.

  All the President's Men (1976)

• Repeated scrutiny of this evidence failed to definitively implicate Xavier or any other guest at the party.

  Fiction book (2000)

• There is no doubt that prior restraint of publication implicates serious First Amendment scrutiny.

  Academic text (2017)

• The following report describes a recent outbreak in which watermelon was implicated epidemiologically and microbiologically.

  Academic text (1993)

• A report by the Auditor-General in July 1992 implicated virtually all ministries in fraudulent activity.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

I

to involve

vsto implicate

∞ 1.8

Include someone or something as a necessary part of an activity

focuses on being a consequence or accompaniment rather than on active participation

E

to entail

vsto implicate

82 4.8

To involve something as a necessary part

frames the connection as suggested rather than strictly inevitable

Antonyms

E

to exclude

338 3.0

To keep someone or something out so they are not part of something

Phrasal Verbs

I

to implicate in

40 6.6

Show that someone is involved in a crime

How Necessary

to entail

82 4.8

to implicate

41 6.9

to imply

367 3.5

to suggest

∞ 2.1

to hint

136 2.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology