implicated

6.4

A person evidence shows is involved in a crime or wrongdoing

adjective
/ˈɪmplɪˌkeɪtɪd/

: implicado

Several officials were implicated in the corruption scandal that shocked the community.

And then you just refer to them as, you know, implicated, the person implicated or, you know, the person on trial.

Examples

Pring's Ukrainian wife is clearly implicated in his death.
Everybody's implicated and people know that there's something wrong.
I think women are deeply implicated in in what you're suggesting and, and have everything to gain from taking.
The investigation revealed that the accountant was implicated in the embezzlement scheme.
Witnesses stated that she was implicated in the plot to defraud investors.

Synonyms

involved

vsimplicated

79 3.5

Connected to something because you take part in it

shows clear participation with evidence pointing to guilt or responsibility

complicit

vsimplicated

Formal

47 8.3

Being involved with others in something illegal or wrong

is shown to be involved and does not require participation with others

suspected

vsimplicated

3.7

Thought likely to be true but not yet proven

is shown to be involved by evidence rather than mere suspicion

Antonyms

exonerated

Formal

6.5

Freed from blame when proof shows they did not do the crime

How Involved

implicated

6.4

suspected

3.7

linked

2.1

unrelated

94 3.5

Surface Forms

implicated positive

Morphology

implicated = implicate (transparent) = implicate + ed

The adjective is a regular past-participle/adjectival form of the verb 'implicate' and its meaning is directly derived from that verb.

Etymology

The word implicated comes from the Latin parts in- 'in' and plicare 'to fold', so it originally gave the picture of someone being 'folded in' or tied into something, and you can see the same root in complicate. So when a person is implicated in a crime, they are pictured as 'tangled in' or involved in the wrongdoing, which explains the modern meaning.