Implicate

Origin

From Latin implico ("entangle, involve"), from plico ("fold")

Full definition of implicate

Verb

1. To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
• 2013-06-29, A punch in the gut, Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
2. The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.
3. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
   What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?
4. (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

Related terms

• implication
• implicative
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• implicitness
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