implicate
/ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/ verb C1- To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way. · The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.
- To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
He/she/it implicates · Past implicated · Past participle implicated · -ing form implicating
Verb forms
- Base form
- implicate
- He/she/it
- implicates
- Past
- implicated
- Past participle
- implicated
- -ing form
- implicating
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How can we be implicated in any way?
I find them recorded in my notes under the headings of “The Adventure of the Second Stain,” “The Adventure of the Naval Treaty,” and “The Adventure of the Tired Captain.” The first of these, however, deals with interest of such importance and implicates so many of the first families in the kingdom that for many years it will be impossible to make it public.
Nothing was found to implicate him in any way, and there the matter dropped.
We regard this case as one of murder, and the evidence may implicate not only your friend Mr.
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