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US
/ˈɪmpɫɪˌkeɪt/
]
[ UK /ˈɪmplɪkˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ˈɪmplɪkˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
What does this move entail? -
bring into intimate and incriminating connection
He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government
How To Use implicate In A Sentence
- Leg length discrepancies have been implicated in a number of musculoskeletal hip and leg injuries.
- Astrocytes, previously thought to be unimportant in neuronal transmission, have recently been implicated in long-term modulation of neuronal synapses. Health News from Medical News Today
- No coseismic offset in the position of the glacier surface is observed; instead, modest tsunamis associated with the glacial earthquakes implicate glacier calving in the seismogenic process. RealClimate
- You know, I don ` t want to use the term guilty necessarily but implicated by association or however you want to call it. CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2008
- Screening for other cancers has been implicated in overdiagnosis too. Times, Sunday Times
- There are many ways in which biological factors may be implicated in depression.
- Ed Norton stars in this film about twin brothers -- one a professor at Brown University, the other a redneck -- who come back together in Oklahoma when the ne'er-do-well, marijuana-dealing brother is implicated in a criminal matter. Ed Koch: Leaves of Grass (A Mayor Koch Review)
- The patient complained of some stiffness in the lumbo-sacral region, but the right synchondrosis was no doubt implicated in the track. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
- Yesterday, he also laid out an intricate plot to implicate him in his former wife's murder, stopping short of calling it political interference.
- I did indeed feel a certain admiration but it was mixed with revulsion that I was now implicated in blackmail just by knowing about it.