Implicate

Definition: Implicate

Implicate

Verb

1. Bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government".

2. Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "implicate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Note: Implicate \Im"pli*cate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Implicated; present participle verb or noun Implicating.]. (references)

Synonym: Implicate

Accusation

Brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account; (censure); take to blame, take to task; put in the black book.

Composition

Include; (in a class); contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into.

Crosswords: Implicate

Books

• Implicate Relations: Society and Space in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Geojournal Library, Vol 23) (reference)

• Wholeness and the Implicate Order (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Whether these findings implicate viral infections in the disease process in sarcoidosis is unclear. (references)

Scientists have studied a number of infectious agents (such as viruses) that have been suspected of causing MS, but have been unable to implicate any one particular agent. (references)

Civil Liberties

Luxembourg

In 2000 judicial police searched Socialist Party offices in an attempt to implicate party members of collaboration with a journalist who in 1998 had alleged corruption on the part of the Interior Minister. (references)

Ghana

In July the Government resumed an investigation into the substance of a tape publicized in October 1999 that appeared to implicate President Rawlings in several infamous extralegal actions of the predemocratic era. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Afrikaans

verwar (confuse, entangle, puzzle). (various references)

Albanian

përziej (admix, adulterate, alloy, attemper, beat, blend, commingle, compound, confound, conglomerate, dash, drag in, embark, emulsify, intermingle, intermix, jumble, knead, malaxate, mingle, mix, shuffle, stir), ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up), nënkuptoj (drive at, intend, understand). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ورط (commit, embarrass, embroil, fix, involve, tangle, wind), ‏تضمن (comprise, contain, embodiment, guaranty, have, include), ‏إنزلق في, ‏إقتضى ضمنا (imply, presuppose). (various references)

Bulgarian 

който се подразбира (constructive, implicit, implied, inferential), въвличам (commit, draw in, entangle, involve, mix up, plunge), включвам в себе си (embody), впримчвам (decoy, ensnare, entrap, mesh, noose, snare, vamp), замесвам (involve, knead), предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, divine, expect, guess, imagine, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween), имам за предпоставка (imply). (various references)

Chinese 

罟 (net for birds or fish), 牽扯 (involve), 牵连 (implicated, Implicating, incriminate, Incriminated, incriminating), 累 (accumulate, cumbersome, tired), 搆 (reach to). (various references)

Czech

implikovat, zaplést (embroil, entangle, entwine, involute, Ravel, tangle). (various references)

Dutch

verwarren (blend, confuse, entangle, mingle, mix, puzzle, shuffle), verstrikken (entangle), betrekken (entangle, get, include, send for). (various references)

Esperanto

impliki (entangle). (various references)

Farsi 

مستلزم بودن (Entail, Implication), مشمول کردن , گرفتارکردن (Enmesh, Entangle, Enwrap, Hook, Incriminate, Involve, Tangle), دلالت کردن بر (Signify), بهم پیچیدن (Interlace, Interlock). (various references)

Finnish

vetää joku osalliseksi juttuun (to implicate someone). (various references)

French

entortiller. (various references)

German

verwickeln (embroil, engage, entangle, involve, pitch, tangle, tangle up, to embroil, to entangle, to involve). (various references)

Greek 

ενοχοποιώ (frame, incriminate, inculpate), εμπλέκω (enmesh, involve, snarl, tangle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לסבך (complicate, confuse, embroil, involve, mesh, mess, sophisticate). (various references)

Hungarian

magába foglal (contain, embrace, imply, incorporate, involve, subsume, to comprehend, to comprise, to contain, to embody, to imply, to incorporate, to inhere, to subsume, to unite), belekever (incorporate, involve, to admix, to entangle, to fold in, to implicate, to incorporate, to incriminate, to involve). (various references)

Italian

implicare (connote, entail, imply, involve, mean). (various references)

Korean 

내포하십시요. (various references)

Manx

cur ass lheh (implication). (various references)

Norwegian

innvikle, implisere (imply). (various references)

Papiamen

impliká (entangle). (various references)

Pig Latin

implicateay.(various references)

Portuguese

implicar (carry, connotate, connote, draw in, entangle, imply, import, infer, involve, predicate, presuppose, purport, spell, suggest), envolver (beset, circumvent, close, convolve, cover, draw in, enclasp, enfold, entangle, envelop, enwrap, fold, gird, import, invest, involve, lap, lap up, mantle, mix up, wind, wrap). (various references)

Romanian

implica (connote, entail, imply, involve), sugera (hint, imply, intimate, prompt, propose, suggest). (various references)

Russian 

вовлекать (draw in, immerse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uviti (convolute, curl, pack, roll, twist, wrap), upletati, sadržavati, obuhvatiti (clasp, comprehend, cover, envelop, include, involve, span). (various references)

Spanish

involucrar (involve, jumble), implicarse (involve), implicar (embroil, entail, imply, involve, predicate, purport), envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, do up, encircle, enfold, envelop, imply, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack, pack up, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), enredar (confuse, embroil, entangle, intertwine, involve, net, Ravel, set, tangle), comprometer (bind, bring into, compromise, endanger, engage, involve, jeopard, jeopardize). (various references)

Swedish

innebära (amount to, connote, imply, import, infer, intend). (various references)

Turkish

içine almak (be inclusive of, comprise, contain, include), içermek (comprise, contain, cover, embody, encapsulate, enclose, imply, incapsulate, inclose, include, number, span, store, subsume), sokmak (bite, dig into, drag, drive, engraft, enter, immerse, ingraft, inject, insert, instil, instill, involve, land, let in, pitchfork, poke, put, put in, ram, send, sink into, slide in, spatchcock, stick, sting, strike, take into, thrust, tuck, tuck in, work up), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), kapsamak (be inclusive of, blanket, compass, comprehend, comprise, contain, cover, embrace, encapsulate, enclose, encompass, incapsulate, inclose, include, involve, span, subsume), bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine). (various references)

Ukrainian

сплутувати (derange), містити в собі (contain, include, involve), залучати, заплутаний (complex, complicated, entangled, inextricable, intricate, involved, knotted, knotty, mazy, muzzy, perplexed, tangled, wandered). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ẩn ý (by-end, implication), điều ngụ ý (implication). (various references)

conectatur, conexum, inplicat, inplicaverunt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "implicate": implicated, implicates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Implicate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amblecote, imlpicate, imolicate, impilcate, implicare, implicat, implicatory, implicite, implicitr, implict. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aplitic, ciliate, climate, metical, pelitic, plicate.

-3 letters: aplite, atelic, camlet, caplet, elicit, epical, impact, impale, italic, limpet, malice, placet, plaice, plicae.

-4 letters: amice, amici, ample, camel, campi, cilia, claim, clamp, clapt, cleat, clept, clime, clipt, eclat, email, epact, ileac, iliac, impel, leapt, lepta, licit, limit, limpa, litai, macle, maile, malic, maple, melic, metal.

+1 letter: epitomical, implicated, implicates.

+2 letters: epithalamic, implicative, planimetric.

+3 letters: incompatible, polarimetric, semitropical.

+4 letters: biocompatible, epistemically, impeccability, imperialistic, implicatively, impracticable, incompatibles, microparticle, multiparticle, neoplasticism, recompilation, semipolitical.

+5 letters: compensability, exceptionalism, microparticles, multiplicative, municipalities, neoplasticisms, pinealectomies, pinealectomize, recompilations.