implicate: Meaning and Definition of

im•pli•cate

Pronunciation: (im'pli-kāt"), [key]
— -cat•ed, -cat•ing.
  1. to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
  2. to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
  3. to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.
  4. to fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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