implicating


im·pli·cate

I0060800 (ĭm′plĭ-kāt′)tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot.2. To have as a consequence or necessary circumstance; imply or entail: His evasiveness implicated complicity.3. Linguistics To convey, imply, or suggest by implicature.4. Archaic To interweave or entangle; entwine.
[Middle English, to convey a truth bound up in a fable, from Latin implicāre, implicāt-, to entangle, unite : in-, in; see in-2 + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.]